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A Pound of Flesh: What Cachexia Is and What It Is Not

Body weight loss, mostly due to the wasting of skeletal muscle and adipose tissue, is the hallmark of the so-called cachexia syndrome. Cachexia is associated with several acute and chronic disease states such as cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart and kidney failure, and acqu...

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Autores principales: Berardi, Emanuele, Madaro, Luca, Lozanoska-Ochser, Biliana, Adamo, Sergio, Thorrez, Lieven, Bouche, Marina, Coletti, Dario
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7828214/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33445790
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics11010116