Professor Ying Wang's team has made progress in the field of research on sarcopenia and cognitive dysfunction in the elderly

Recently, the team of Professor Wang Ying of the School of Public Health of Fudan University and the team of Professor Wang Gang of Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine have made progress in the research field of sarcopenia and cognitive dysfunction in the elderly, and published the journal "Sarcopenia and mild cognitive" in the internationally renowned medical journals Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle (IF12.

Mild cognitive dysfunction is considered to be an intermediate state between normal cognitive level and dementia, with a high probability of conversion to Alzheimer's disease, so mild cognitive dysfunction is an important threshold for

This study was the first in China to use the nationally representative large-sample survey data to evaluate the effect of sarcopenia on mild cognitive impairment in the elderly, and the extrapolation of the results was good, which provided new evidence for the study of the causal association between sarcopenia and cognitive function, and had important practical value

Hu Yisong, associate researcher of China Survey and Data Center of Chinese University, and Peng Wenjia, a 2021 doctoral student of the School of Public Health of Fudan University, are the co-first authors of the paper, Ren Rujing, deputy chief physician of Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, is the co-author, professor Wang Ying of the School of Public Health of Fudan University and Professor Wang Gang of Ruijin Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine are the co-corresponding authors