Associations of sarcopenia status and its components with the risk of developing functional disability in older Chinese adults: evidence from the China health and retirement longitudinal study

The prevalence of sarcopenia is high among the elderly Chinese population. Additionally, HS showed good discriminant validity for discriminating ADL disability in males. Further prospective studies are needed to clarify the relationship between sarcopenia status and the risk of developing functional disability and to determine whether indicators of the separate sarcopenia components can be used for early warning, screening and identifying functional disability.