Dabang Wu

Diagnostic criteria for sarcopenia (EWGSOP2, AWGS2, SDOC) and their prognostic value: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence, all-cause mortality, and hospitalisation

Three current consensus definitions for sarcopenia—EWGSOP2 (2019), AWGS2 (2019), and SDOC (2020)—differ substantially in their conceptual framework and operational cutoffs. No published meta-analysis has quantitatively pooled prognostic estimates across all three criteria. We aim...