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MEZA-PAREDES, Johana Vanessa; ORTIZ SORIA, Lourdes Alicia  y  OLMEDO PAVON, Jimena Araceli. Identification and characterization of sarcopenia risk in diabetic women: Evaluation with SARC-F and dynamometry in Luque, Paraguay. Investig. estud. UNA [online]. 2025, vol.16, n.1, pp.26-36. ISSN 2070-0415.  https://doi.org/10.18004/rdgic.investig.estud.una.2025.junio.2916014635.

Sarcopenia is a syndrome that is characterized by the progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass, generally associated with aging. However, there are factors such as age, sex, and chronic pathologies such as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) that can influence its development and progression, even at earlier ages. The objective of this study was to characterize the risk of sarcopenia according to the SARC-F scale and handgrip strength in women with T2DM from a reference center. Observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study, sample composed of women aged 40 to 74 years, diagnosed with T2DM, who attended the Diabetes Club of a reference center and had given consent to participate. Ethical principles were respected, an instrument developed by the authors was used to collect sociodemographic data, handgrip strength assessed by dynamometry, and the validated instrument for detecting the risk of sarcopenia called the SARC-F scale. There was a predominance of women with normal hand grip strength (65.38%), compared to 34.62% who had low strength according to the dynamometry assessment. The results of the sarcopenia risk assessment using the SARC-F instrument showed that 61.54% of the participants were not at risk. Measuring grip strength with a dynamometer and using the SARC-F instrument could constitute useful, non-invasive methods that are easy to apply in populations with chronic pathologies such as T2DM to evaluate the risk of sarcopenia.

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