Cancer cachexia and its pathophysiology: links with sarcopenia, anorexia and asthenia

S Peixoto da Silva, JMO Santos… - Journal of cachexia …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer cachexia is a multifactorial syndrome characterized by a progressive loss of skeletal
muscle mass, along with adipose tissue wasting, systemic inflammation and other metabolic …

Malnutrition in the elderly: a narrative review

E Agarwal, M Miller, A Yaxley, E Isenring - Maturitas, 2013 - Elsevier
The focus of nutrition is often on healthy diets and exercise to minimise the risk of
developing lifestyle diseases such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease …

The abridged patient-generated subjective global assessment is a useful tool for early detection and characterization of cancer cachexia

AL Vigano, J di Tomasso, RD Kilgour… - Journal of the Academy …, 2014 - Elsevier
Cancer cachexia (CC) is a syndrome characterized by wasting of lean body mass and fat,
often driven by decreased food intake, hypermetabolism, and inflammation resulting in …

[HTML][HTML] Rehabilitation nutrition for iatrogenic sarcopenia and sarcopenic dysphagia

A Nagano, S Nishioka, H Wakabayashi - The Journal of nutrition, health …, 2019 - Elsevier
Sarcopenia is a very important issue in rehabilitation medicine and nutritional care. The
prevalence of sarcopenia in older people is approximately 50% in the rehabilitation setting …

Current knowledge and practice of Australian and New Zealand health‐care professionals in sarcopenia diagnosis and treatment: Time to move forward!

SSY Yeung, EM Reijnierse… - … journal on ageing, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To describe the current knowledge and practice of sarcopenia diagnosis and
treatment among health‐care professionals before, directly after and 6 months after a …

[HTML][HTML] High Sarcopenia Awareness Contrasts a Lack of Clinical Implementation Among Geriatric Rehabilitation Health Care Professionals in the Netherlands …

LMG Verstraeten, JP van Wijngaarden… - Journal of Geriatric …, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Background and Purpose: Despite being associated with serious adverse outcomes, such
as mortality, sarcopenia remains largely undiagnosed in older individuals. This study aimed …

Unsatisfactory knowledge and use of terminology regarding malnutrition, starvation, cachexia and sarcopenia among dietitians

L Ter Beek, E Vanhauwaert, F Slinde, Y Orrevall… - Clinical Nutrition, 2016 - Elsevier
Background & aims Clinical signs of malnutrition, starvation, cachexia and sarcopenia
overlap, as they all imply muscle wasting to a various extent. However, the underlying …

Sarcopenia and cachexia evaluation in different healthcare settings: a questionnaire survey of health professionals

S Nakahara, H Wakabayashi, K Maeda… - Asia Pacific Journal …, 2018 - search.informit.org
Background and Objectives: The rates of sarcopenia and cachexia evaluations by different
occupational groups at different settings are unclear. The objectives are to evaluate and …

[HTML][HTML] A multi-center survey on hospital malnutrition and cachexia in Slovenia

B Koroušić Seljak, D Mlakar Mastnak… - European journal of …, 2020 - nature.com
Background Malnutrition has become a prevalent condition, with European and international
studies reporting rates of approximately 25–40% in hospitals. We set out to perform a multi …

Development and validation of a new tool: The sarcopenia knowledge questionnaire

SC Lee, HL Chiu, HW Lai, J Feng, TY Chen, MC Lin… - Geriatric Nursing, 2023 - Elsevier
We developed a new questionnaire—the Sarcopenia Knowledge Questionnaire (SKQ)—to
evaluate the level of awareness about sarcopenia among older adults and tested the …