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  2. Sarcopenia - Wikipedia

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    Sarcopenia is considered a component of frailty syndrome. [2] Sarcopenia can lead to reduced quality of life, falls, fracture, and disability. [3] [4] Sarcopenia is a factor in changing body composition. When associated with aging populations, certain muscle regions are expected to be affected first, specifically the anterior thigh and ...

  3. Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders

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    Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders (SCWD) is an international and multidisciplinary non-profit organization, created in 2008 that focuses on cachexia [1] and sarcopenia. [2] As they are often under-diagnosed, patient groups aim to improve their awareness. [ 3 ]

  4. Frailty syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Sarcopenia is the degenerative loss of skeletal muscle mass, quality, and strength associated with aging. [19] The rate of muscle loss is dependent on exercise level, co-existing health conditions, nutrition and other factors. Sarcopenia can lead to reduction in functional status and cause significant disability from increased muscle weakness.

  5. Sarcopenic obesity - Wikipedia

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    Sarcopenic obesity is a combination of two disease states, sarcopenia and obesity. Sarcopenia is the muscle mass/strength/physical function loss associated with increased age, [ 1 ] and obesity is based off a weight to height ratio or body mass index (BMI) that is characterized by high body fat or being overweight.

  6. Prognosis - Wikipedia

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    Prognosis (Greek: πρόγνωσις "fore-knowing, foreseeing"; pl.: prognoses) is a medical term for predicting the likelihood or expected development of a disease, including whether the signs and symptoms will improve or worsen (and how quickly) or remain stable over time; expectations of quality of life, such as the ability to carry out daily activities; the potential for complications and ...

  7. Muscle atrophy - Wikipedia

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    Sarcopenia is the degenerative loss of skeletal muscle mass, quality, and strength associated with aging. This involves muscle atrophy, reduction in number of muscle fibers and a shift towards "slow twitch" or type I skeletal muscle fibers over "fast twitch" or type II fibers. [3]

  8. Myelodysplastic syndrome - Wikipedia

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    RAEB was divided into RAEB-I (5–9% blasts) and RAEB-II (10–19%) blasts, which has a poorer prognosis than RAEB-I. Revised to MDS with IB1 and MDS with IB2. (Increased Blasts) 5q- syndrome: Typically seen in older women with normal or high platelet counts and isolated deletions of the long arm of chromosome 5 in bone marrow cells.

  9. Life table - Wikipedia

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    By watching over the life expectancy of any year(s) being studied, epidemiologists can see if diseases are contributing to the overall increase in mortality rates. [13] Epidemiologists are able to help demographers understand the sudden decline of life expectancy by linking it to the health problems that are arising in certain populations.