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October 19, 2015 The 4th ICSFR Conference which took place in Boston on April 23-25, 2015 was dedicated to raising awareness of the need to implement frailty and sarcopenia into clinical practice. Please view one of a series of video/slide webcasts as presented by...
April 23, 2015 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, April 23, 2015. At a symposium held today at the International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research in Boston, Massachusetts, international experts on sarcopenia backed a proposal to establish a diagnostic code for the...
April 23, 2015 Press release What is Frailty & Sarcopenia? Frailty is a clinical syndrome in which there is an increase in an individual’s vulnerability for developing increased dependency due to three or more of the following criteria: unintentional weight loss,...
May 5, 2014 Discover the highlights of the 2014 International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research that took place in Barcelona on March 12-14, 2014, as well as the announcement of next year’s conference, in this special edition of the Frailty newsletter....
March 14, 2014 Barcelona, Spain, March 14, 2014 – Declining muscle mass and strength in the elderly are major contributors to both physical and cognitive disability and thus, loss of independence. Since both physical inactivity and inadequate protein intake have been...
March 14, 2014 Barcelona, Spain, March 14, 2014 – Seeking innovative approaches to combat the devastating effects of frailty and muscle loss in the older person, the Innovative Medicines Initiative Joint Undertaking (IMI-JU) will soon announce the project finally...
March 13, 2014 Barcelona, Spain, March 13, 2014 – A new drug being developed for the treatment of a rare muscle wasting disease called sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM), and which is being investigated in sarcopenia in elderly patients, has also been shown to...
March 12, 2014 Barcelona, Spain, March 12, 2014 – Physical frailty, which has been linked to a reduced ability to fend off disability in old age, is also associated with increased levels of cognitive impairment, according to research presented today at the...
March 10, 2014 What is Frailty & Sarcopenia? Frailty is a clinical syndrome in which there is an increase in an individual’s vulnerability for developing increased dependency due to three or more of the following criteria: unintentional weight loss, self-reported...
June 23, 2013 During the International Academy on Nutrition and Aging (IANA) meeting on Nutrition and Physical & Cognitive Frailty Including Sarcopenia, held in Seoul, Korea, on June 23, 2013, Tung Wai Auyeung from the Chinese University of Hong Kong presented an...
June 23, 2013 Gobbens et al. performed a study to assess the predictive validity of the eight individual self-reported components of the physical frailty subscale of the Tilburg Frailty Indicator (TFI) [1] for activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental...
