Malnutrition can affect patients with various acute cardiovascular disease conditions, including acute coronary syndromes, arrhythmias, or valvular disease; however, most of the literature has focused ...

Cachexia is a complex syndrome that often develops as a serious complication of various chronic diseases. Cachexia is a process of weight loss with pathologic wasting of either muscle or muscle and ...

Cachexia is a state of involuntary weight loss. The latest generic definition states that aside from weight loss, patient needs to fulfill additional criteria to be diagnosed with cachexia. New, ...

Cancer cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome characterized by skeletal muscle loss leading to progressive functional impairment. Despite the ubiquity of cachexia in clinical practice, prevention, ...

Cachexia is common in cancer, yet it is poorly understood in noncancer diagnoses. In this article, Carlson and Dahlin review cancer cachexia in cardiac disease. The definition, pathophysiology, and ...

In 2011, Laura Beaver did not let the growing tumor in her body dictate her life. She kept up her normal hourlong gym routine. She took weekend bike rides near her Washington state home. She did the ...

Cancer-associated cachexia is a multifactorial wasting disorder characterized by anorexia, unintentional weight loss (WL, skeletal muscle mass with or without loss of fat mass), progressive functional ...

"Cancer-related cachexia and sarcopenia occur in hematologic malignancies, not just gastrointestinal carcinomas and head and neck cancers. Their presence affects all aspects of diagnosis and treatment ...

Cachexia is a paraneoplastic syndrome of unintentional adipose and muscle tissue wasting with severe impacts to functionality and quality of life. Although health inequities across minority and ...

Cachexia in older SCLC patients leads to inferior survival rates and increased treatment complications, such as dose reductions and incomplete chemotherapy courses. Patients with cachexia had ...

Eating disorders are often thought of as body image disorders with symptoms of food restriction and purging. In most cases, the goal of these behaviors is to prevent weight gain. Not all eating ...