Comment on Asian Working Group on Sarcopenia's Updated Consensus Recommendations: Emphasis on Anterior Thigh Muscle Mass

We have read with great interest the recently published consensus update of Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia about the diagnosis and treatment of sarcopenia.1 We congratulate them for defining their diagnostic algorithm. Although we agree on selecting less stringent cut-off values for physical performance tests [ie, ≥12 seconds for chair stand test (CST) and <1.0 m/s for usual gait speed] compared with those of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People,2 we have a few suggestions on the following issues.