This is far more common than we think! And it's VERY LETHAL!. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-nutrition-society/article/ageing-well-a-review-of-sarcopenia-and-frailty/A34C02F64079C6EA10D10E1EF9D930AE This is a video on the above article. It talks about the increasing prevalence and importance of frailty and muscle loss. Frailty is more functional and conceptual, while muscle loss is objective and visual. "Rise & walk" and walking speed are both objectives, easy and popular ways to measure these. Besides falls and cardiovascular risk, survival of surgery and other stressors is greatly dependent on muscle mass and frailty.
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