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    Cachexia (/kəˈkɛksiə/) is a complex syndrome associated with an underlying illness, causing ongoing muscle loss that is not entirely reversed with nutritional...
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    starvation and can be reversed with nutritional therapy. In contrast, cachexia is a wasting syndrome caused by an underlying disease such as cancer that...
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    dietary needs of each animal have to be considered to avoid causing harm. Cachexia Malnutrition "Emaciation". Medical-Dictionary.TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved...
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    to changes in muscle synthesis signalling pathways. It is distinct from cachexia, in which muscle is degraded through cytokine-mediated degradation, although...
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  • The Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal that covers research relevant to changes in body composition...
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    caused by reduction in calorific intake or increase in exercise is called cachexia and may be a symptom of a serious medical condition. Intentional weight...
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    been investigated in human studies for the treatment of osteoporosis, cachexia (wasting syndrome), benign prostatic hyperplasia, stress urinary incontinence...
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  • Cachexia and Wasting Disorders (SCWD) is an international and multidisciplinary non-profit organization, created in 2008 that focuses on cachexia and...
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    used mainly as an appetite stimulant to treat wasting syndromes such as cachexia. It is also used to treat breast cancer and endometrial cancer, and has...
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    ways to reduce the risks of developing these deficiencies. Starvation Cachexia Emaciation Kwashiorkor Protein poisoning Appleton & Vanbergen, Metabolism...
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    development for a variety of other indications, including treatment of cachexia, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, muscle atrophy or sarcopenia, and stress...
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  • cancer cachexia. Nishie, Kenichi; Nishie, Tomomi; Sato, Seiichi; Hanaoka, Masayuki (September 2023). "Update on the treatment of cancer cachexia". Drug...
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    Dysregulation of appetite contributes to anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, cachexia, overeating, and binge eating disorder. A limited or excessive appetite...
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    under development by Helsinn Healthcare SA for the treatment of cancer cachexia and anorexia. Anamorelin significantly increases plasma levels of growth...
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    with AIDS and cancer, but not rheumatoid cachexia. Further research involving the treatment of cancer cachexia with Juven over a period of several months...
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  • clinical trials in individuals with AIDS and cancer, but not rheumatoid cachexia. Clinical trials with Juven for AIDS have also demonstrated improvements...
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    punishment for slaves. 2007–2008 world food price crisis Anorexia mirabilis Cachexia Global Hunger Index Starvation mode Famine scales Hunger strike List of...
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    an endogenous pyrogen, is able to induce fever, apoptotic cell death, cachexia, and inflammation, inhibit tumorigenesis and viral replication, and respond...
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    pain. Chronic ketamine abuse has also been associated with biliary colic, cachexia, gastrointestinal diseases, hepatobiliary disorder, and acute kidney injury...
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    concentration Later: Delusions, dementia, tremors, hyperreflexia, seizures, cachexia Usual onset 10-30 years after initial infection Causes Meningoencephalitis...
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    (age-related muscle atrophy), osteoporosis, and weight loss due to cancer cachexia, but development for these indications was discontinued. The drug is taken...
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    including cancer, AIDS, and heart failure can cause muscle loss known as cachexia. Myopathies have been modeled with cell culture systems of muscle from...
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    diseases such as cancer and AIDS induce a body wasting syndrome called cachexia, which is notable for the severe muscle atrophy seen. Other syndromes or...
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    people with cancer cachexia are encouraged to engage in physical exercise. Due to various factors, some individuals with cancer cachexia have a limited capacity...
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    profound body fat loss (people with cancer, cardiac or infection-induced cachexia can lose 80% of their body fat). Early carbon dioxide retention causing...
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    is named after Hippocrates, who first described it. A related term is cachexia, which is the bodily wasting syndrome often associated with death. "Medical...
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  • PMID 20586697. Strasser F, Bruera ED (June 2002). "Update on anorexia and cachexia". Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America. 16 (3): 589–617. doi:10...
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    conditions that alert to the presence of AIDS are pneumocystis pneumonia (40%), cachexia in the form of HIV wasting syndrome (20%), and esophageal candidiasis....
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    glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, muscle spasms, seizures, severe pain, severe nausea and cachexia, or dramatic weight loss and muscle atrophy". While governor, John Hickenlooper...
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    enalapril has also been shown to reduce cardiac cachexia in patients with chronic heart failure. Cachexia is a poor prognostic sign in patients with chronic...
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