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These findings may pave the way for effective treatment approaches to cardiac cachexia.
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Aetiology and the presence of cardiac cachexia did not influence the lipid profile.
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The most dramatic metabolic problem in heart failure patients is the development of cardiac cachexia.
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The available evidence suggests that cardiac cachexia is a multifactorial neuroendocrine and metabolic disorder with a poor prognosis.
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Patients with cardiac cachexia suffer from generalised loss of lean tissue, fat tissue, as well as bone tissue.
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Over the last decades, cardiac cachexia and alterations in muscle metabolism in heart disease have received increasing research interest.
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Concerning the pathophysiology of cardiac cachexia, there is increasing evidence that neurohormonal and immune abnormalities may play a crucial role.
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Background and aim: The prognostic impact of poor nutritional status and cardiac cachexia in myocardial infarction is not clearly understood.
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While the mechanism(s) involved in the progression of cardiac cachexia is incompletely established, certain factors appear to be contributory.
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This finding indicates that leptin may participate in the catabolic state leading to the development of cardiac cachexia in the course of CHF.
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This study aimed to examine the influence of leptin on GHBP in CHF patients with and without cardiac cachexia compared with healthy control subjects.
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A number of studies have also shown that cardiac cachexia is linked to raised plasma levels of inflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor alpha.
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Thus slowing or preventing the progression of cardiac cachexia relies heavily on dietary and exercise-based interventions in addition to standard heart failure treatments and medications.
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Approximately 15% of elderly heart failure patients will eventually develop cardiac cachexia; such a diagnosis is closely associated with high morbidity and increased mortality.
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It is hoped that a better understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms involved in cardiac cachexia will lead to novel therapeutic strategies in the (near) future.
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Cardiac cachexia is a co-morbidity that may develop in terminal stages of chronic heart failure (CHF).
