Insulin‐Like Growth Factor‐1 and Interleukin 6 Predict Sarcopenia in Very Old Community‐Living Men and Women: The Framingham Heart Study

Abstract

Predictors of sarcopenia include body composition characteristics that are common to men and women and sex-specific metabolic predictors. Sarcopenia appears to reflect a withdrawal of anabolic stimuli, such as growth hormone, in men but an increase in catabolic stimuli, such as cellular IL-6, in women.