Gastro-intestinal protein loss in elderly patients with cardiac cachexia

Age and Ageing

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 221-223

  King, D ^a,c   Smith, M L ^b   Lye, M ^b  

^a CLATTERBRIDGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WIRRAL UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM CHLORIDE CR 51;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; SENESCENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PROTEINS; CACHEXIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHIES; RISK FACTORS; SERUM ALBUMIN;

EID: 0029985927     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/25.3.221     Document Type: Article

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