Fig. 1
From: Higher uric acid serum levels are associated with sarcopenia in west China: a cross-sectional study
Flow chart of study participants. Initially, we recruited 7536 community-dwelling multi-ethnic residents in total. 4500 participants did the bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) which is available for the selection of sarcopenia. Then other small ethnic group participants (n = 67), participants without blood uric acid test (n = 57), participants with kidney disease (n = 87), participants with mental disease (n = 5) and participants with tumor (n = 24) were excluded. Finally, 4260 participants were included and were grouped according to UA quartiles in our study