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Press release from the ICFSR 2017 held in Barcelona, Spain. Press release  

Press Release from the ICFSR 2017 held in Barcelona, Spain. Press release    

Barcelona, Spain April 27-28, 2017 View the ICSFR 2017 program on the International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research website. www.frailty-sarcopenia.com >

View a webcast from ICSFR2015, presented by Prof. Roberto Bernabei and entitled “Older people unmet needs are changing medicine”.

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 condition as an essential step towards the development of new treatments. With the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) – 10th revision set to replace the existing diagnostic codes in October 2015, the Aging In Motion (AIM) Coalition has been working hard to forge an international consensus on clinically relevant aspects of the disease that will enable consistent diagnosis and collaboration in research and clinical studies.

The International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research 2015 (ICFSR2015) will take place from April 23-25, 2015 in Boston, MA, USA. The event is organized in collaboration with TUFTS University, Boston. After Toulouse (France) in 2011, Orlando (USA) in 2012, and Barcelona (Spain) in 2014, this fourth edition expects to welcome 500 participants from all over the world. Today the conference program includes 6 keynote lectures, 16 symposiums, 65 oral communications and 211 posters.

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.

At the 2014 International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research, a panel of scientists presented their latest findings on the mechanisms underlying muscle atrophy in the elderly and strategies to reverse this process. Prolonged resistance-type exercise training represents an effective therapeutic strategy to augment skeletal muscle mass and improve functional performance in the elderly. However, the increase in protein synthesis in response to exercise largely depends on protein intake at certain times before, during and/or after exercise.

The Innovative Medicines Initiative, a Joint Undertaking between the European Commission and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), has identified interventions for frailty and sarcopenia as unmet medical needs of an increasingly ageing population in the EU and worldwide. During the 2014 International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research, Dr. Susanna Del Signore, Associate Vice-President of Global Regulatory Policy at Sanofi provided an update on the IMI Frailty and Sarcopenia project plan.

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 speed the recovery of muscle mass in young men whose muscles have atrophied as a result of wearing a cast.

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 on March 12 at the International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research in Barcelona, Spain.

The International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research 2014 (ICFSR2014) will take place from March 12-14, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The event is organized under the auspices of the IAGG GARN Network, in collaboration with the Institute of Ageing of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University Hospital of Getafe, Madrid, and TUFTS University, Boston. In this press release, the scope and the objectives of the international conference are presented.

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…

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, Robbert Gobbens from the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands presented an oral communication entitled, “The prediction of disability by self-reported physical frailty components of the Tilburg frailty indicator”.