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Editorial
. 2024 May 17;16(11):9306-9308.
doi: 10.18632/aging.205919. Epub 2024 May 17.

Global consensus for sarcopenia

Ben Kirk  1   2 , Peggy M Cawthon  3   4 , Alfonso J Cruz-Jentoft  5
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Editorial

Global consensus for sarcopenia

Ben Kirk et al. Aging (Albany NY). .
No abstract available

Keywords: GLIS; global definition; sarcopenia; skeletal muscle.

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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST: Ben Kirk, Peggy Cawthon and Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft declarations of conflicts of interests and declarations of sources of funding can be read here: https://www.eugms.org/fileadmin/images/news/2022/GLIS_Steering_Committee_Rev3.pdf.

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A schematic of the global conceptual definition of sarcopenia sourced from Kirk et al. [9] under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license.
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