Anorexia of aging

Current Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 9-12

  Conte, Caterina ^a   Cascino, Antonia ^a   Bartali, Benedetta ^b   Donini, Lorenzo M ^a   Rossi Fanelli, Filippo ^a   Laviano, Alessandro ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorexia; Elderly; Protein energy malnutrition; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; DRONABINOL; GHRELIN; MEGACE ES; MEGESTROL ACETATE; PROKINETIC AGENT; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AGING; ANOREXIA; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEPRESSION; EATING HABIT; ENTERIC FEEDING; FOOD INTAKE; GERIATRIC NUTRITION; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 70350639576     PISSN: 15734013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340109787314776     Document Type: Review

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