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Table 4 Prevalence of other tissue loss syndromes (%) in patients with a specific syndrome

From: Prevalence and overlap of sarcopenia, frailty, cachexia and malnutrition in older medical inpatients

 

Sarcopenia (n = 42)

Frailty (n = 33)

Cachexia (n = 32)

Malnutrition (n = 15)

Sarcopenia

–

57.6*

68.8*

80.0*

Frailty

45.2*

–

62.5*

53.3

Cachexia

52.4*

60.6*

–

93.3*

Malnutrition

28.6*

24.2

43.8*

–

  1. *Significant difference between patients with and patients without the respective syndrome (p < 0.05)
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