Inflammation and skeletal muscle wasting during cachexia

JM Webster, LJAP Kempen, RS Hardy… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cachexia is the involuntary loss of muscle and adipose tissue that strongly affects mortality
and treatment efficacy in patients with cancer or chronic inflammatory disease. Currently, no …

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 …

Gut microbiota modulates COPD pathogenesis: role of anti-inflammatory Parabacteroides goldsteinii lipopolysaccharide

HC Lai, TL Lin, TW Chen, YL Kuo, CJ Chang, TR Wu… - Gut, 2022 - gut.bmj.com
Objective Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a global disease characterised
by chronic obstruction of lung airflow interfering with normal breathing. Although the …

Weight loss, malnutrition, and cachexia in COVID‐19: facts and numbers

MS Anker, U Landmesser… - Journal of cachexia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Patients with COVID‐19 disease are prone to develop significant weight loss and clinical
cachexia. Three reports with altogether 589 patients that reported on weight loss and …

Muscle ultrasound and sarcopenia in older individuals: a clinical perspective

A Ticinesi, T Meschi, MV Narici, F Lauretani… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - Elsevier
Introduction A precise quantitative measurement of skeletal muscle mass is fundamental for
diagnosing sarcopenia in older individuals. The current techniques of assessment, including …

Skeletal muscle dysfunction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. What we know and can do for our patients

A Jaitovich, E Barreiro - American journal of respiratory and critical …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Skeletal muscle dysfunction occurs in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) and affects both ventilatory and nonventilatory muscle groups. It represents a very …

Diagnostic criteria and measurement techniques of Sarcopenia: a critical evaluation of the Up-to-date evidence

G Voulgaridou, S Tyrovolas, P Detopoulou… - Nutrients, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sarcopenia, a geriatric syndrome characterized by progressive skeletal muscle mass and
function decline, poses a significant health risk among the elderly, contributing to frailty, falls …

Towards personalized management of sarcopenia in COPD

SIJ van Bakel, HR Gosker, RC Langen… - … journal of chronic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The awareness of the presence and consequences of sarcopenia has significantly
increased over the past decade. Sarcopenia is defined as gradual loss of muscle mass and …

[HTML][HTML] Sarcopenia and mortality in different clinical conditions: A meta-analysis

GKY Lee, PCM Au, GHY Li, M Chan, HL Li… - Osteoporosis and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objectives Sarcopenia is recognized to be a health problem which is as serious as obesity,
but its relevance to mortality is unclear. We conducted a meta-analysis of cohort studies on …

Computed tomography-derived area and density of pectoralis muscle associated disease severity and longitudinal changes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …

SH Bak, SO Kwon, SS Han, WJ Kim - Respiratory Research, 2019 - Springer
Background Muscle wasting is associated with prognosis in patients with chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD). The cross-sectional area of skeletal muscles on computed …