A new study has found that those with diabetic nephropathy, also known as diabetic kidney disease, are 2½ times more likely to develop sarcopenia, or loss of muscle mass and function, than diabetics who do not have kidney disease.
Conducted by SingHealth Polyclinics in collaboration with Duke-NUS Medical School and shared with The Straits Times on Monday, the study also found that 58 per cent of the elderly with Type 2 diabetes had pre-sarcopenia and sarcopenia.
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