Muscle strength, not muscle mass, determines the health-related quality of life in Indonesian women with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Objective: No study evaluated the impact of low muscle strength and mass on the Sarcopenia-related Quality of Life (SarQoL) in women with SLE.

Methods: This cross-sectional study recruited 145 women with SLE consecutively; muscle strength was measured with a calibrated Jamar handheld dynamometer, muscle mass was measured with appendicular muscle mass index (Tanita MC-780 MAP body impedance analyser) and health-related quality of life with SarQoL Questionnaire. The cut-off points for low muscle strength, low muscle mass and sarcopenia were derived from the Asian Working Group on Sarcopenia 2019.

Frailty state among Indonesian elderly: prevalence, associated factors, and frailty state transition.

Background: Information about frailty status and its transition is important to inform clinical decisions. Predicting frailty transition is beneficial for its prevention. While Indonesia is the 4th largest geriatric population in Asia, data about frailty transition is limited.

Diagnostic Test of a Scoring System for Frailty Syndrome in the Elderly According to Cardiovascular Health Study, Study of Osteoporotic Fracture and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Based Frailty Index Compared with Frailty Index 40 Items.

Aim: to get a recommendation on the best frailty syndrome diagnostic tools, that will be able to be practiced on a daily setting in Indonesia.

Methods: this is a cross-sectional study with diagnostic test approach, conducted to patients in the Geriatric Outpatient Clinic of Cipto Mangunkusumo National Referral Hospital on May-June 2013. Each subject underwent a frailty evaluation using CHS, SOF, FI-CGA and FI-40 scoring systems.