The Indian Sarcopenia Staging System

Sarcopenia is a common yet an underrecognized clinical entity that is associated with multiple health consequences includinghigh mortality. Though diagnostic criteria are published by different international working groups, there are no unifiedcriteria to assess severity of sarcopenia. In this brief manuscript, we propose a novel comprehensive sarcopenia stagingsystem. This assesses risk factors, clinical presentation, and complications of sarcopenia, so as to provide a comprehensiveoverview of sarcopenia severity. This staging system is easy to use. It can be used not only at diagnosis but also duringfollow-up to assess the treatment response. However, being a novel tool, this needs validation in diverse clinical settingsand across different populations.