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Is Sarcopenia a Condition, a Disorder, a Disease, or a True Geriatric Syndrome?

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Sarcopenia

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With the emergence of precision [2] and high-definition medicine [3], the interrogative title of this chapter seems obvious. However, it reflects the current state of the art regarding sarcopenia, as a recent literature review has proven [4]. Sarcopenia has been indifferently labeled as a “condition,“ [5–7] “disorder,“ [8] “disease,“ [9] “syndrome,“ [10, 11] or “geriatric syndrome” [12, 13] in the most recent international scientific papers.

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    Jean-Pierre Michel & Christophe Graf

  2. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Besancon, Besancon, France

    Fiona Ecarnot

  3. EA3920, University of Burgundy Franche-Comté, Besancon, France

    Fiona Ecarnot

  4. University Hospital of Geneva, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Christophe Graf

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Michel, JP., Ecarnot, F., Graf, C. (2021). Is Sarcopenia a Condition, a Disorder, a Disease, or a True Geriatric Syndrome?. In: Veronese, N., Beaudart, C., Sabico, S. (eds) Sarcopenia. Practical Issues in Geriatrics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80038-3_8

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