Quality of life in sarcopenia measured with the SarQoL®: impact of the use of different diagnosis definitions.

Background: The SarQoL® is a recently developed quality of life questionnaire specific to sarcopenia.

Aim: To compare the quality of life (QoL) of subjects identified as sarcopenic with that of non-sarcopenic subjects when using six different operational definitions of sarcopenia.

Methods: Participants of the SarcoPhAge study (Belgium) completed the SarQoL®.