ArticleBMC public health2024
Sarcopenia risk in U.S. younger adults: the impact of physical activity intensity and occupational engagement-insights from a cross-sectional NHANES study.
Article in BMC public health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Heterogeneous associations between domain-specific physical activity and sarcopenia risk in diabetic adults: A causal forest analysis.The Journal of international medical research · 2026Article
- Sarcopenia and associated factors in maintenance hemodialysis patients in Vietnam: A cross-sectional study.Medicine · 2026Article
- Risk of Sarcopenia, Anxiety and Depression Among Healthcare Professionals in Disability Care Facilities.Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2026Article
- Validation of a single question for assessment of habitual physical activity in women.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2025Article
- The proportion of moderate-to-vigorous-intensity physical activity to total volume of physical activity correlates with decreased risk of possible sarcopenia: A prospective cohort study.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2025Article
- Biomarkers of aging: from molecules and surrogates to physiology and function.Physiological reviews · 2025Review
- Physical activity and risk of sarcopenia in 6500 community-dwelling Japanese people aged 40-74 years: an 8-year follow-up study.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Multimodal data-driven prognostic model for predicting long-term outcomes in older adult patients with sarcopenia: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
objectiveThis study aimed to investigate the associations between physical activity (PA) intensity, occupational PA engagement, and sarcopenia in younger adults.
methodsData from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (from 2011 to 2018) were used for the study. PA data were extracted for the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire, and the ratio of limb muscle mass (ALM) to body mass index (BMI) was used to determine sarcopenia. Multiple logistic regression was performed, and dose-response curves were drawn to evaluate the associations.
resultsOf the 8802 adults aged 20 to 59 years, 770 (8.7%) were identified as having sarcopenia. Compared to those in the reference group, the participants in the "low", "moderate", and "high" total METs groups had lower risks of sarcopenia (low: OR = 0.730, 95% CI = 0.583; 0.915; moderate: OR = 0.643, 95% CI = 0.485; 0.853; high: OR = 0.560, 95% CI = 0.457; 0.687). The risk of sarcopenia decreased in the high-intensity recreational PA group; however, such a significant association was observed only in the high-intensity occupational PA group. The relationship between total METs and sarcopenia showed a nonlinear U-shaped trend.
conclusionsA greater intensity of PA is associated with a lower risk of sarcopenia among younger adults, regardless of whether moderate or vigorous PA is performed. Moreover, recreational PA may particularly advantageously contrast with occupational PA in lowering the risk of sarcopenia.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.