The complexity of treating wasting in ambulatory rehabilitation: Is it starvation, sarcopenia, cachexia or a combination of these conditions?

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 386-393

  Yaxley, Alison ^a   Miller, Michelle D ^a   Fraser, Robert J ^a   Cobiac, Lynne ^a   Crotty, Maria ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aged; Cachexia; Sarcopenia; Starvation; Wasting

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CACHEXIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REHABILITATION CENTER; STARVATION; WASTING SYNDROME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CACHEXIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; REHABILITATION CENTERS; SARCOPENIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; STARVATION; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 84865593723     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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