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The Relationship of Obesity, Nutritional Status and Muscle Wasting in Patients Assessed for Liver Transplantation

Introduction: Obesity co-exists with malnutrition and muscle atrophy in patients with cirrhosis. Muscle wasting is a feature of sarcopenia, a known determinant of patient outcomes. This is the first description of a relationship between obesity, subjective global assessment (SGA) of nutritional stat...

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Autores principales: Vidot, Helen, Kline, Katharine, Cheng, Robert, Finegan, Liam, Lin, Amelia, Kempler, Elise, Strasser, Simone I., Bowen, David Geoffrey, McCaughan, Geoffrey William, Carey, Sharon, Allman-Farinelli, Margaret, Shackel, Nicholas Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6769900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31487854
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11092097