Prevalence of and risk factors for pre-sarcopenia among healthcare professionals
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Abstract
ObjectivesSarcopenia, characterized by a progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and function, constitutes a health issue that remains largely undiagnosed. Few studies focused on the presence of sarcopenia in healthcare professionals. This study examined the prevalence of and risk factors for sarcopenia among this cohort.MethodsFor this cross-sectional study, we recruited healthcare professionals from the National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Taiwan. Sarcopenia was defined in accordance with the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (2010) and the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia (2019) guidelines. Skeletal muscle mass indices were measured via bioelectrical impedance analysis. Muscle strength was evaluated with a hand-grip test and physical performance was assessed based on 6-meter walk gait speed. Hormone levels were examined. Logistic regression was used to determine the prevalence of sarcopenia and its risk factors.ResultsOne hundred participants (41.8 ± 13.3 years, 53% female) were recruited. The overall prevalence of sarcopenia was 22.0% (male/female: 4%/18%), with most cases identified as pre-sarcopenia (19.0%). Logistic regression revealed age, alcohol consumption, calf circumference, protein mass, and serum albumin concentration were associated with sarcopenia.ConclusionsThis is the first study to investigate sarcopenia in healthcare professionals. The findings indicate a high prevalence of pre-sarcopenia associated with higher age, smaller calf circumference, lower protein mass and serum albumin concentration. Light alcohol consumption may have a protective effect. Our results emphasize the importance of paying special attention to the impact of sarcopenia in the healthcare industry and raising awareness of its potential harm.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".