Metabolic Syndrome, Sarcopenia and Role of Sex and Age: Cross-Sectional Analysis of Kashiwa Cohort Study

• Shinya Ishii,

  Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655 Japan

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• Tomoki Tanaka,

  Affiliation Institute of Gerontology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

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• Masahiro Akishita,

  Affiliation Department of Geriatric Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8655 Japan

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• Yasuyoshi Ouchi,

  Affiliation Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations, Toranomon Hospital, 2-2-2, Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-8470, Japan

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• Tetsuo Tuji,

  Affiliation Institute of Gerontology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

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• Katsuya Iijima ,

  * E-mail: iijima@iog.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  Affiliation Institute of Gerontology, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

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• for the Kashiwa study investigators

  ¶Membership of the Kashiwa study investigators is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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