Sarcopenia: There is a need for some steps forward

摘要

The first articles devoted to "sarcopenia" appeared in the literature in 1993 by Evans and colleagues,1'2 and defined sarcopenia as "the age-related loss in skeletal muscle mass, which results in decreased strength and aerobic capacity and thus functional capacity." The same year, the word "sarcopenia" was used in other articles by Butler3 and Dehlin,4 who already began to mention, as did numerous other authors, the possible reversibility of this clinical condition.