Sarcopenic Obesity Prevalence and Development in a Malaysian Obese Population, 2017-2025

A retrospective cohort study of 2,410 adults with a BMI of at least 25 kg/m², assessing the prevalence and longitudinal development of sarcopenic obesity. The data was collected via bioelectrical impedance analysis at a Malaysian tertiary centre between 2017 and 2025. The dataset was authored by Guo Hou Loo and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Estimating the prevalence of sarcopenic obesity based on different diagnostic frameworks (AWGS 2019 and adapted ESPEN/EASO criteria).
• Identifying predictors like BMI, sex, and age associated with sarcopenic obesity using multivariable logistic regression.
• Analyzing longitudinal reclassification rates of initially non-sarcopenic obese individuals over time using Kaplan-Meier and Cox proportional hazards models.
• Comparing body composition metrics (BMI, body fat percentage, skeletal muscle mass index) between groups with and without sarcopenic obesity.

Strengths

• Includes 2,410 adult patient records from a specific Malaysian tertiary centre.
• Provides longitudinal follow-up data for a subset of 742 initially non-sarcopenic individuals.
• Applies two distinct diagnostic frameworks for defining sarcopenic obesity, allowing for comparison.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the full dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 15.5 KB file size suggests the dataset is very small, potentially containing only summary statistics.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Retrospective cohort study using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) measurements.

Time Range

2017 to 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-02 04:21:01; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Malaysia (data collected at a tertiary centre)