Risk factors relating blood markers of inflammation and nutritional status to survival in cachectic geriatric patients in a randomized clinical trial

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1708-1712

  Yeh, Shing Shing ^a   Hafner, Alice ^b,c   Chang, Chin Kuo ^d   Levine, Daniel M ^e   Parker, Thomas S ^e   Schuster, Michael W ^b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e ROGOSIN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cachexia; Cytokines; Nutrition; Risk factors; Weight gain

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; MEGESTROL ACETATE; PLACEBO; PROTEIN P55; PROTEIN P75; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CACHEXIA; CANCER; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGED; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AGED; CACHEXIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MEGESTROL ACETATE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 6944249060     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52465.x     Document Type: Article

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