From the Chicago MeetingsSarcopenia

TL;DR: An updated approach that incorporates current understanding of the systemic inflammatory response to help guide assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of malnutrition syndromes is proposed and an appreciation of a continuum of inflammatory response in relation to malnutrition.

TL;DR: There was a significant positive association between liver fat and muscle mass in linear regression models, but the association was not significant after adjusting for BMI and further studies are needed to determine if there is a causal relationship between liverfat and sarcopenia and whether treatment of sarc Openia improves liver fat.

TL;DR: Whether low serum albumin is associated with low muscle strength and future decline in muscle strength in community‐dwelling older men and women is examined.

TL;DR: The idea that selenium is important to muscle strength in older women is supported, because of its role in selenoenzymes that protect muscle against oxidative damage.

TL;DR: Some of the first estimates of the extent of the public health problem posed by sarcopenia are provided, independent of ethnicity, age, morbidity, obesity, income, and health behaviors.

TL;DR: High-intensity resistance exercise training is a feasible and effective means of counteracting muscle weakness and physical frailty in very elderly people, in contrast to multi-nutrient supplementation without concomitant exercise, which does not reduce muscle weakness orPhysical frailty.

TL;DR: The studies reveal that endogenous IL-6 plays a crucial antiinflammatory role in both local and systemic acute inflammatory responses by controlling the level of proinflammatory, but not antiinflammatory, cytokines, and that these antiinflammatory activities byIL-6 cannot be compensated for by IL-10 or other IL- 6 family members.

TL;DR: Results indicate a gradual decrease in size/volume with advancing age, accompanied by a replacement by fat and connective tissue.