Relevance of the new pre-cachexia and cachexia definitions for patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1008-1010

  van Bokhorst de van der Schueren, Marian A E ^a   Konijn, Nicole P C ^a   Bultink, Irene E M ^a   Lems, Willem F ^a   Earthman, Carrie P ^b   van Tuyl, Lilian H D ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cachexia; Malnutrition; Nutritional assessment; Pre cachexia; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CACHEXIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; FAT FREE MASS INDEX; FAT MASS INDEX; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PAIN; PRE CACHEXIA; PREVALENCE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CACHEXIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NETHERLANDS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84870241961     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: 15321983     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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