Balogun S, Winzenberg T, Wills K,  Scott D, Callisaya M, Cicuttini F, Jones G, Aitken D, Prospective Associations of Osteosarcopenia and Osteodynapenia with Incident Fracture and Mortality over 10 years in Community-dwelling Older Adults in Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics. 2019 May – Jun;82:67-73  doi: 10.1016/j.archger.2019.01.015

AIM:

To determine whether older adults with low muscle mass (sarcopenia) and strength (dynapenia), in the presence of osteoporosis/osteopenia, have an increased risk of fracture and mortality over 10 years, compared to those with low muscle or low bone mass alone or with neither condition.