Table 2 Demographic and clinical characteristics of the severely sarcopenic patients who underwent rehabilitation and in whom circulatory miRNAs were analyzed and of the age-and-sex-matched non-sarcopenic healthy controls (HC)
Sarcopenic patients | Healthy controls | |
|---|---|---|
N | 45 | 44 |
Gender (F:M) | 37:8 | 32:12 |
Age, years | 73.3 ± 8.3 | 71.9 ± 7.1 |
MMSE | 27.8 ± 2.4 | 29.4 ± 0.5 |
SPPB pre-rehabilitation | 0 0–1 | 11* 10–12 |
SPPB post-rehabilitation | 2.2 1.2–3.0** | – |
Right Handgrip pre-rehabilitation | 19.4 ± 7.6 | – |
Right Handgrip post-rehabilitation | 20.2 ± 7.8 | – |
Left Handgrip pre-rehabilitation | 16.6 ± 6.6 | – |
Left Handgrip post-rehabilitation | 16.1 ± 7.5 | – |