Prevalence and overlap of sarcopenia, frailty, cachexia and malnutrition in older medical inpatients

BACKGROUND: Sarcopenia, frailty, cachexia and malnutrition are widespread syndromes in older people, characterized by loss of body tissue and related to poor outcome. The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to assess the prevalence of these syndromes and their overlap in older medical inpat...

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Autores principales: Gingrich, Anne, Volkert, Dorothee, Kiesswetter, Eva, Thomanek, Marta, Bach, Svenja, Sieber, Cornel C., Zopf, Yurdagül
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31029082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1115-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487020/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31029082
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1115-1

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