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SARC‐F: a symptom score to predict persons with sarcopenia at risk for poor functional outcomes

BACKGROUND: A brief, inexpensive screening test for sarcopenia would be helpful for clinicians and their patients. To screen for persons with sarcopenia, we developed a simple five‐item questionnaire (SARC‐F) based on cardinal features or consequences of sarcopenia. METHODS: We investigated the util...

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Autores principales: Malmstrom, Theodore K., Miller, Douglas K., Simonsick, Eleanor M., Ferrucci, Luigi, Morley, John E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4799853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27066316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcsm.12048