The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Japan;
The Premier Departmental Research of Medicine, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Japan.
In Vivo. 2021 Nov-Dec;35(6):3001-3009. doi: 10.21873/invivo.12595.
The elderly people are characterized by multiple comorbidities, dementia, and are at risk of developing sarcopenia and frailty. Sarcopenia is defined by loss of muscle mass and muscle strength or physical decline. Sarcopenia is a main component of physical frailty. Screening tools for sarcopenia that can be easily determined in daily practice are useful and include the SARC-F screening tool. SARC-F is a questionnaire consisting of five questions: Strength (S), Assistance walking (A), Rising from a chair (R), Climbing stairs (C), and Falls (F) on a scale of 0 to 2. The recommended cutoff value is ≥4 points. The SARC-F has been shown to correlate well with clinical outcomes in the elderly and various underlying diseases, while it is also true that the SARC-F has its shortcomings such as low sensitivity for sarcopenia. In this review, we mainly outline the SARC-F and mention other screening tools for sarcopenia.
老年人的特点是多种合并症、痴呆症，并且有发生肌少症和衰弱的风险。肌少症的定义是肌肉质量和肌肉力量的丧失或身体衰退。肌少症是身体虚弱的主要组成部分。在日常实践中，可以通过简单确定的肌少症筛查工具很有用，包括 SARC-F 筛查工具。SARC-F 是一个由五个问题组成的问卷：力量（S）、助行（A）、从椅子上站起来（R）、爬楼梯（C）和跌倒（F），每个问题的得分范围为 0 到 2。建议的截断值为≥4 分。SARC-F 已被证明与老年人和各种基础疾病的临床结局密切相关，而 SARC-F 也有其缺点，如对肌少症的敏感性低。在这篇综述中，我们主要概述了 SARC-F 并提到了其他肌少症筛查工具。
