MOH Holdings, 1 Maritime Square, #11-25 HarbourFront Centre, Singapore, 099253, Singapore.
SingHealth Polyclinics, SingHealth-Duke NUS Family Medicine Academic Clinical Programme, 167 Jalan Bukit Merah, Connection One, Tower 5, #15-10, Singapore, 150167, Singapore.
BMC Geriatr. 2021 Dec 11;21(1):690. doi: 10.1186/s12877-021-02563-6.
To address and clarify the concerns of fellow researchers of "Revisiting: "Prevalence of and factors associated with sarcopenia among multi-ethnic ambulatory older Asians with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a primary care setting". While chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may be a contributing factor, it is our study limitation to capture a significant number of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for analyses. Also, ethnicity is not associated with sarcopenia.
为了解决并澄清“重新审视:在初级保健环境中多民族门诊老年 2 型糖尿病亚洲人中与肌少症相关的患病率和因素”的研究人员的担忧。虽然慢性阻塞性肺疾病可能是一个促成因素,但我们的研究限制是无法为分析捕获到大量患有慢性阻塞性肺疾病的患者。此外,种族与肌少症无关。