In the paper entitled “Skeletal muscle mass indices in healthy young Mexican adults aged 20–40 years: implications for diagnoses of sarcopenia in the elderly population” there was a wrong citation in Table 3. First, the correct last name is Masanes et al., 2012 . Second, we want to correct in our published work the sex-specific cut-off points reported by Wen et al., 2011 , and Kim et al., 2009 (Table 3). The correct values are 5.85 and 4.23 for men and women, respectively, in the case of cut-off points published by Wen et al., 2011, and 5.14 for women, in the case of Kim et al., 2009. Finally, we want to clarify that these small changes do not affect the results of the statistical analysis reported in our published work.