Sarcopenia (in Greek, sarx for flesh and penia for loss) is considered, “poverty of the flesh” (Rosenberg, 1997). The term is sometimes used interchangably with frailty and cachexia in the geriatric population ito describe the loss of skeletal muscle and progressive weakness that occurs with aging. Sarcopenia can also be used to describe the phenomenon in of the loss of lean body mass in younger individuals who have this constellation of features. The description of sarcopenia is also used to …
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