Table 4 Comparison of participant characteristics between sarcopenia and non-sarcopenia groups screened by finger-circle test
| Â | Settsu City | p-value | Hannan City | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Non-sarcopenia (n = 4608) | Sarcopenia (n = 692) | Non-sarcopenia (n = 3535) | Sarcopenia (n = 502) | |||
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||
Age [years] | ||||||
 40–49 | 1008 (91.3) | 96 (8.7) | < 0.001 | 643 (91.7) | 58 (8.3) | < 0.001 |
 50–59 | 883 (91.5) | 82 (8.5) |  | 712 (90.7) | 73 (9.3) |  |
 60–69 | 1178 (87.7) | 165 (12.3) |  | 978 (89.9) | 110 (10.1) |  |
 70–79 | 1226 (82.4) | 262 (17.6) |  | 956 (83.6) | 188 (16.4) |  |
  ≥ 80 | 313 (78.3) | 87 (21.8) |  | 246 (77.1) | 73 (22.9) |  |
Women | 2180 (47.3) | 316 (45.7) | 0.419 | 1723 (48.7) | 242 (48.2) | 0.823 |
BMI [kg/m2] | ||||||
  < 18.5 | 196 (57.0) | 148 (43.0) | < 0.001 | 122 (51.3) | 116 (48.7) | < 0.001 |
 18.5–24.9 | 3031 (86.3) | 481 (13.7) |  | 2482 (88.0) | 340 (12.0) |  |
 25.0–29.9 | 1149 (95.3) | 57 (4.7) |  | 776 (95.1) | 40 (4.9) |  |
  ≥ 30 | 232 (97.5) | 6 (2.5) |  | 155 (96.3) | 6 (3.7) |  |
Alcohol drinker | 3371 (73.2) | 473 (68.4) | 0.009 | 2498 (70.7) | 338 (67.3) | 0.129 |
Smoking status | ||||||
 Never | 2295 (87.4) | 330 (12.6) | 0.036 | 1973 (88.6) | 255 (11.4) | 0.049 |
 Past | 1426 (87.5) | 204 (12.5) |  | 1056 (86.0) | 172 (14.0) |  |
 Current | 887 (84.9) | 158 (15.1) |  | 506 (87.1) | 75 (12.9) |  |
Living alone | 601 (13.0) | 93 (13.4) | 0.774 | 409 (11.6) | 68 (13.5) | 0.207 |
High socioeconomic status | 2465 (53.5) | 354 (51.2) | 0.251 | 2089 (59.1) | 297 (59.2) | 0.977 |
Poor self-reported health | 862 (18.7) | 165 (23.8) | 0.002 | 493 (13.9) | 102 (20.3) | < 0.001 |
Poor self-reported PF | 2197 (47.7) | 356 (51.4) | 0.065 | 1489 (42.1) | 218 (43.4) | 0.580 |
Exercise habits per | 2446 (53.1) | 367 (53.0) | 0.982 | 1978 (56.0) | 287 (57.2) | 0.607 |
Poor mastication | 850 (18.4) | 185 (26.7) | < 0.001 | 556 (15.7) | 97 (19.3) | 0.045 |
Number of meals [times] | ||||||
 1 | 50 (83.3) | 10 (16.7) | 0.339 | 21 (80.8) | 5 (19.2) | 0.083 |
 2 | 602 (87.0) | 90 (13.0) |  | 364 (86.1) | 59 (13.9) |  |
  ≥ 3 | 3956 (87.0) | 592 (13.0) |  | 3150 (87.8) | 438 (12.2) |  |
Poor sleep status | 1239 (26.9) | 189 (27.3) | 0.815 | 802 (22.7) | 110 (21.9) | 0.697 |
Poor short cognitive ability | 378 (8.2) | 68 (9.8) | 0.160 | 235 (6.6) | 42 (8.4) | 0.165 |
Slow gait speed | 1547 (33.6) | 293 (42.3) | < 0.001 | 1126 (31.9) | 168 (33.5) | 0.470 |