Role of sarcopenia in the frailty transitions in older adults: a population‐based cohort study

BACKGROUND: Frailty and sarcopenia are age-associated syndromes that have been associated with the risk of several adverse events, mainly functional decline and death, that usually coexist. However, the potential role of one of them (sarcopenia) in modulating some of those adverse events associated to the other one (frailty) has not been explored. The aim of this work is to assess the role of sarcopenia within the frailty transitions and mortality in older people. METHODS: Data from the Toledo Study of Healthy Aging (TSHA) were used. TSHA is a cohort of community-dwelling older adults ≥65. Frailty was assessed according with the Frailty Phenotype (FP) and the Frailty Trait Scale-5 (FTS5) at baseline and at follow-up. Basal sarcopenia status was measured with…