<Tr> <Th> ICD - 10 </Th> <Td> M62. 8 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> (edit on Wikidata) </Td> </Tr> <P> Sarcopenia is the degenerative loss of skeletal muscle mass (0.5--1% loss per year after the age of 50), quality, and strength associated with aging . Sarcopenia is a component of the frailty syndrome . It is often a component of cachexia . It can also exist independently of cachexia; whereas cachexia includes malaise and is secondary to an underlying pathosis (such as cancer), sarcopenia may occur in healthy people and does not necessarily include malaise . The term is from Greek σάρξ sarx, "flesh" and πενία penia, "poverty". </P> <P> The ICD - 10 Clinical Modification (ICD - 10 - CM), which is the United States' national adaptation of ICD - 10, classifies sarcopenia to code M62. 84 . (This is an enhancement over the base ICD - 10 classification, which only uses the 5th character position within Chapter XVII to identify the anatomical site of occurrence .) </P>

Age-related loss of muscle mass and strength is called