Effect of Combined Resisted Training and Protein-based Diet on Frailty in Sarcopenic Elderly Women
Sixty obese elderly women will be recruited from Fawkia hospital outpatient clinic diagnosed by sarcopenia and randomly allocated into two groups for a 12-week intervention. Patients will be divided into 2 groups (A and B): * Group A (combined intervention group: n=30): will perform supervised resistance exercise training three times per week and follow a high-protein diet (1.3 g protein/kg/day) * Group B (control group: n=30): will receive a high-protein diet and general health advices and be asked to maintain their usual lifestyle. They will be offered the intervention post-study.
• 1\) Female gender 2) Age 60-70 years 3) BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2 4) Sarcopenic patients diagnosed by their physicians according to EWGSOP2 criteria (low muscle strength confirmed by handgrip strength or chair stand test, plus low muscle quantity confirmed by BIA or DXA), and SARC-F score \>3.
• 5\) Ambulatory and able to participate in exercise. 6) Stable medical condition. 7) The patients didn't follow any type of diet before the treatment at least 4 weeks ago.
• 8\) Patients didn't follow any exercise program before treatment at least 4 weeks ago.