Response to the Comments on “Malnutrition in Relation to Muscle Mass, Muscle Quality, and Muscle Strength in Hospitalized Older Adults”

We thank Drs Tasci and Naharci for their interest in our recent manuscript.1 First, according to the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) consensus, the diagnosis of malnutrition should include at least 1 phenotypic criterion (either weight loss, low body mass index, or “reduced muscle mass”) and 1 etiologic criterion (either reduced food intake, assimilation disease burden, or inflammatory condition).2 In our study, we defined malnutrition based on this algorithm. However, we did not include reduced muscle mass as a phenotypic criterion to define malnutrition because one of our aims was to explore the association between malnutrition and muscle mass.