Participant recruitment
sarcopenia, sarcopenic
SARCOPENIA
The sarcopenic participants were identified from a geriatric community cohort attending annual health examinations (n = 597). Sixty-six sarcopenic patients were initially invited to join a RCT comparing early vs. delayed combined nutrition and exercise intervention for sarcopenia. Fifty-eight patients were willing to join the RCT with cytokine and other relevant parameters measured at baseline. One patient in the delayed intervention group was lost at the 1st follow-up, resulting in a dropout rate of 1.7% (1/58). A total of 57 sarcopenic patients with available cytokine data before and after intervention were analyzed along with 57 gender- and sex-matched participants without sarcopenia identified from the same geriatric community cohort (