Evaluation of Nutrients Intake for a Group of Jordanian Older Adults with Sarcopenia Syndrome in Amman: An Explorative and Pilot Study

Table 10

Mean intake of amino acids for the participants included in the study.

Amino acids	Nonsarcopenia group mean ± SD	Sarcopenia group mean ± SD	value
Histidine (%)	120.1 ± 38.2	96.0 ± 42.4	0.040
Isoleucine (%)	148.5 ± 42.6	117.8 ± 47.6	0.020
Leucine (%)	117.6 ± 32.8	94.8 ± 37.4	0.026
Lysine (%)	95.2 ± 37.9	76.9 ± 39.6	0.102
Methionine + cysteine (%)	112.4 ± 33.6	96.8 ± 41.3	0.151
Phenylalanine (%)	182.2 ± 206.4	114.6 ± 43.7	0.116
Threonine (%)	115.9 ± 35.6	87.5 ± 35.5	0.007
Tryptophan (%)	147.6 ± 62.5	101.7 ± 39.8	0.003
Valine (%)	139.1 ± 47.3	115.5 ± 45.8	0.080

is set as significant and SD: standard deviation.