Tumor necrosis factor-α and involuntary weight loss in elderly, community-dwelling adults

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 313-319

  Ruscin, J Mark ^a   Page II, Robert L ^a   Yeager, Bryan F ^b   Wallace, Jeffrey I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cachexia; Elderly; Involuntary weight loss; Mini Nutritional Assessment; MNA; TNF ; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CACHEXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIET; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MINI NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PATIENT MOBILITY; SERUM; VENOUS BLOOD; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 14544289055     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1592/phco.25.3.313.61607     Document Type: Article

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