Cachexia

Cachexia: Physical wasting with loss of weight and muscle mass caused by disease. Patients with advanced cancer, AIDS, and some other major chronic progressive diseases may appear cachectic.
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Cachexia is a wasting syndrome that causes weakness and a loss of weight, fat, and muscle.
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CACHEXIA: General ill health and malnutrition, marked by weakness and emaciation, and usually associated with serious disease. See AIDS Wasting Syndrome.
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cachexia (ka-KEK-see-a)
Loss of body weight and muscle mass, and weakness that may occur in patients with cancer, AIDS, or other chronic diseases.
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Cachectic: Having cachexia, physical wasting with loss of weight and muscle mass due to disease. Patients with advanced cancer, AIDS, and some other major chronic progressive diseases may appear cachectic.
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When I entered the home, I observed a young man, who was very pale and suffering from cachexia, the wasting syndrome commonly associated with advanced cancers.
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Juven An OTC nutritional supplement combining glutamine, arginine, and HMB (-hydroxy--methylbutyrate) shown in clinical studies to be effective in stopping muscle wasting (cachexia) in AIDS patients.
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- There is a theory that you can starve cancer to death. This has been proven untrue. Cancer does better in a malnourished body. One study revealed that pure malnutrition (cachexia) is responsible for at least 22% and up to 75% of all cancer deaths.
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Thalidomide is used to treat ulcers in the mouth and throat. Preliminary research shows it might also help treat Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer of the blood vessel walls mostly found in people with HIV, as well as weight loss and body wasting (cachexia).
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Is also thought to upregulate HIV replication, and may contribute to the pathogenesis of wasting (cachexia) due to the loss of fat from fat cells and increased metabolism of muscle cells.
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