Don’t take it seriously!Severe muscle loss with age can be fatal
Muscle is an important indicator of health and is closely related to physical strength. However, many adults are unaware of muscle loss, or simply see it as a part of getting older. Yadong Hospital has long been concerned regarding the issue of people’s empowerment and health, and cooperated with Abbott Taiwan to hold a two-week “Muscle Loss Risk Health Education Curation”.
High rate of bed rest for muscle loss fractures may also increase risk of death
Director Chen Zhidao of the Family Medicine Department of Yadong Memorial Hospital emphasized that muscles can not only maintain self-care ability, but also activate immune cells, which is one of the keys to maintaining quality of life and immunity. With muscle loss, people will first feel the decline in grip strength, walking ability, and physical strength. If they do not actively improve, people may fall into a vicious cycle of “decreased exercise → increased muscle loss → decreased self-care ability”. In the future, they may suffer from poor balance. Fall and fracture, once you start to stay in bed, the time and economic cost of nursing care will be greatly increased.
In addition, muscle is also an important tissue for storing and stimulating the production of immune cell raw materials. As long as the muscle mass is reduced by 10%, it will lead to decreased immunity and increased bacterial infection. If the muscle loss is 40%, the risk of death will increase.
Symptoms of the new crown will also cause muscle loss and may cause sarcopenia to report early
After contracting the new coronary pneumonia, in addition to brain fog, poor appetite, and easy panting, muscle loss is also a long-term new crown symptom that needs to be taken seriously. Director Chen Zhidao explained that during the infection of new coronary pneumonia, the immune storm swept the patient’s body, causing a strong inflammatory response, resulting in a decrease in the efficiency of muscle building; the immune system also needs a lot of energy in order to generate more immune cells to fight once morest the virus, which may lead to muscle loss. The protein in is broken down.
Under multiple shocks, the patient’s muscle health may continue to be affected in the short and long term, and the problem of sarcopenia may come early. Director Chen Zhidao also appealed to the public, if they go to the hospital to see a doctor, they can go to the preventive health center for free sarcopenia testing.
Women should beware of accelerated muscle loss following menopause
Lin Ziyu, deputy director of Yadong Memorial Hospital, also reminded women that following menopause, the decrease in estrogen secretion will affect protein absorption and muscle production, reduce the proportion of body muscle tissue, and accelerate muscle loss. In addition, between the ages of 40 and 80, muscle mass will be lost at an average rate of 8% per year. Coupled with the short-term and long-term impact of the new crown pneumonia on muscles, regardless of gender and age, everyone in the country needs to pay attention to the problem of muscle loss And actively improve, in order to maintain their own health and quality of life.
Combining digital technology and research findings from international journals, Abbott launched an online “Muscle State Test”, which takes one minute to get a preliminary understanding of one’s muscle state, and serves as a reference for life, diet and exercise habits. Li Yanuo, general manager of Abbott Taiwan’s nutrition business, said, “We have been concerned regarding the health of Taiwanese people for nearly 40 years, and hope to continue to provide nutritional science knowledge and products to fill the gap of potential nutritional deficiencies. We are very happy to have this opportunity to cooperate with Yadong The hospital cooperates with health and education activities to fulfill the promise of protecting the health of the people.”