Measuring health-related quality of life in sarcopenia: summary of the SarQoL psychometric properties.

"Declarations Conflict of interestC. Beaudart is the architect of SarQoL. O. Bruyère, R. Rizzoli, Y Rolland, I Bautmans and J-Y. Reginster participated in its development. SarQoL is patented by a spin-off of the University of Liège; C. Beaudart, O. Bruyère, J-Y. Reginster and I. Bautmans are shareholders of SarQoL. However, they did not receive any financial or non-financial compensation for this work. Dr Fielding was supported by the Boston Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center P30AG031679 and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), under agreement No. 58–1950-4–003; any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the USDA. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of WHO neither. Other authors reported no conflicts of interest in relation to this work. Human and animal rightsThis article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors. Informed consentFor this type of study, formal consent is not required. Conflict of interest C. Beaudart is the architect of SarQoL. O. Bruyère, R. Rizzoli, Y Rolland, I Bautmans and J-Y. Reginster participated in its development. SarQoL is patented by a spin-off of the University of Liège; C. Beaudart, O. Bruyère, J-Y. Reginster and I. Bautmans are shareholders of SarQoL. However, they did not receive any financial or non-financial compensation for this work. Dr Fielding was supported by the Boston Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center P30AG031679 and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), under agreement No. 58–1950-4–003; any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the USDA. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of WHO neither. Other authors reported no conflicts of interest in relation to this work."

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