PD1030 - PREVALENCE OF SARCOPENIA AND MALNUTRITION IN OLDER ADULTS IN A GERIATRIC OUTPATIENT CLINIC

PD1030

PREVALENCE OF SARCOPENIA AND MALNUTRITION IN OLDER ADULTS IN A GERIATRIC OUTPATIENT CLINIC

Y. R. Davila Barboza^1,*, E. H. Azaña Fernández²

¹Geriatrics, Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Leon, ²Geriatrics, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Leon, Spain

 

Rationale: Malnutrition and sarcopenia represent common conditions in the geriatric population that have a detrimental impact on quality of life and clinical outcomes. The aim of this study is to know the prevalence of malnutrition and sarcopenia in a geriatric outpatient clinics

Methods: Subjects over 75 years old, able to walk without help and who attended to a  geriatric outpatient clinics were recruited.

Malnutrition risk was assessed using the malnutrition  screening tool (MST) and the  diagnosis was  according  the global leadership initiative malnutrition (GLIM) criteria.

Sarcopenia screening was evaluated with the SARC-F (Strength, Assistance in walking, Rising from a chair, Climbing stairs, and Falls) questionnaire and the probable diagnosis was   according to the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2 criteria (EWGSOP2)

Muscle  strenght  was assessed by grip strength (using a JAMAR dynamometer)  and chair stand test.

Results: The study included  20  patients (60 % female, 40% male, mean age  87,8 years).

Risk of malnutrition was identified in 60 % ( MST ≥ 2) and  risk of probable sarcopenia in 70 % (SARC-F ≥ 4) of the patients.

Malnutrition was detected in  60 % by GLIM and the  prevalence of  probable sarcopenia was 60% by EWGSOP2. 

30 % of patients presented sarcopenia and malnutrition. 

Nutritional interventions (dietary advice, physical exercise and/or oral nutritional supplementation) were reported in all patients with sarcopenia and/or malnutrition.

Conclusion: The study showed a high prevalence and overlap between sarcopenia and  malnutrition in older adults.

Disclosure of Interest: None declared