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A special interest group on cachexia–anorexia in chronic wasting diseases was created in ESPEN, and the definition, assessment, and staging of cachexia were identified as a priority [12]. In the first consensus paper published by this group on the definition of cachexia and pre‐cachexia, the need of criteria for the differentiation between cachexia and other conditions associated with low muscle mass lead to a cooperation with the ESPEN special interest group on nutrition in geriatrics. Diagnosis of sarcopenia was defined by the combined presence of a low muscle mass (a percentage of muscle mass ≥2 standard deviations below the mean measured in young adults of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [NHANES] population) and low gait speed.