Nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty: an Asian perspective

Despite a growing body of evidence that nutrition plays a key role in the pathophysiology, prevention and intervention programs of frailty and sarcopenia, as well as in promoting brain health, the awareness and the need to study the relationship between nutrition and functional goals of healthy agei...

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Main Authors: Woo, Jean, Ong, Sherlin, Chan, Ruth, Li, Liz, Sun, Jianqin, Chan, Yoke Mun, Wee, Shiou Liang, Thu, Nghiem Nguyet, Thang, Pham, Setiati, Siti, Huang, Yi Chen, Wahlqvist, Mark L., Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M.
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Published: KeAi Communications 2019
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author Woo, Jean
Ong, Sherlin
Chan, Ruth
Li, Liz
Sun, Jianqin
Chan, Yoke Mun
Wee, Shiou Liang
Thu, Nghiem Nguyet
Thang, Pham
Setiati, Siti
Huang, Yi Chen
Wahlqvist, Mark L.
Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M.
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Ong, Sherlin
Chan, Ruth
Li, Liz
Sun, Jianqin
Chan, Yoke Mun
Wee, Shiou Liang
Thu, Nghiem Nguyet
Thang, Pham
Setiati, Siti
Huang, Yi Chen
Wahlqvist, Mark L.
Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M.
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description Despite a growing body of evidence that nutrition plays a key role in the pathophysiology, prevention and intervention programs of frailty and sarcopenia, as well as in promoting brain health, the awareness and the need to study the relationship between nutrition and functional goals of healthy ageing have not received as much attention or support from research or policy makers. This review reports on the state of knowledge relating to availability of nutrition survey data for older people relating to prevalence of frailty and sarcopenia in Asia, using data from Netherlands for comparison. Data were obtained from a meeting of a group of nutrition experts from Asia supplemented by literature search using key terms of nutrition, frailty, and sarcopenia. Although nutrition surveys may be carried out regularly in several countries, surveys are mainly carried out for the general adult population rather than specifically among the elderly population, and little data is available relating to the impact of nutrition on sarcopenia and frailty. There is an urgent need for more nutritional data relating to maintaining function with age as opposed to disease prevention, to guide health promotion policies and clinical management of increasingly older population and patients. A shift in the gathering of national nutrition data may need to include such functional measurements in relation to older people, as the latter forms the rapidly growing sector of ageing populations world-wide.
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spelling upm-815092020-10-29T21:26:56Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81509/ Nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty: an Asian perspective Woo, Jean Ong, Sherlin Chan, Ruth Li, Liz Sun, Jianqin Chan, Yoke Mun Wee, Shiou Liang Thu, Nghiem Nguyet Thang, Pham Setiati, Siti Huang, Yi Chen Wahlqvist, Mark L. Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M. Despite a growing body of evidence that nutrition plays a key role in the pathophysiology, prevention and intervention programs of frailty and sarcopenia, as well as in promoting brain health, the awareness and the need to study the relationship between nutrition and functional goals of healthy ageing have not received as much attention or support from research or policy makers. This review reports on the state of knowledge relating to availability of nutrition survey data for older people relating to prevalence of frailty and sarcopenia in Asia, using data from Netherlands for comparison. Data were obtained from a meeting of a group of nutrition experts from Asia supplemented by literature search using key terms of nutrition, frailty, and sarcopenia. Although nutrition surveys may be carried out regularly in several countries, surveys are mainly carried out for the general adult population rather than specifically among the elderly population, and little data is available relating to the impact of nutrition on sarcopenia and frailty. There is an urgent need for more nutritional data relating to maintaining function with age as opposed to disease prevention, to guide health promotion policies and clinical management of increasingly older population and patients. A shift in the gathering of national nutrition data may need to include such functional measurements in relation to older people, as the latter forms the rapidly growing sector of ageing populations world-wide. KeAi Communications 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/81509/1/Nutrition%2C%20sarcopenia%20and%20frailty%20an%20Asian%20perspective.pdf Woo, Jean and Ong, Sherlin and Chan, Ruth and Li, Liz and Sun, Jianqin and Chan, Yoke Mun and Wee, Shiou Liang and Thu, Nghiem Nguyet and Thang, Pham and Setiati, Siti and Huang, Yi Chen and Wahlqvist, Mark L. and Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M. (2019) Nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty: an Asian perspective. Translational Medicine of Aging, 3. pp. 125-131. ISSN 2468-5011 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468501119300392 10.1016/j.tma.2019.11.001
spellingShingle Woo, Jean
Ong, Sherlin
Chan, Ruth
Li, Liz
Sun, Jianqin
Chan, Yoke Mun
Wee, Shiou Liang
Thu, Nghiem Nguyet
Thang, Pham
Setiati, Siti
Huang, Yi Chen
Wahlqvist, Mark L.
Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M.
Nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty: an Asian perspective
title Nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty: an Asian perspective
title_full Nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty: an Asian perspective
title_fullStr Nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty: an Asian perspective
title_full_unstemmed Nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty: an Asian perspective
title_short Nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty: an Asian perspective
title_sort nutrition, sarcopenia and frailty: an asian perspective
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