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  2. Cachexia - Wikipedia

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    In people with cancer, cachexia is diagnosed from unintended weight loss of more than 5%. For cancer patients with a body mass index of less than 20 kg/m 2, cachexia is diagnosed after the unintended weight loss of more than 2%. [12] Additionally, it can be diagnosed through sarcopenia, or loss of skeletal muscle mass. [12]

  3. 5 Sneaky Reasons You Hit a Weight-Loss Plateau ... - AOL

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    Stress, lack of sleep, metabolic adaptations, loss of muscle mass, and changing hormones are all hidden causes of weight-loss plateaus. The good news is that with awareness and some minor ...

  4. Weight loss for older adults may be life-threatening

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    The study analyzed the weight of roughly 20,000 older adults 65 years of age or older in both Australia (around 17,000 adults) and the United States (more than 2,000).

  5. Weight loss - Wikipedia

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    Intentional weight loss is the loss of total body mass as a result of efforts to improve fitness and health, or to change appearance through slimming. Weight loss is the main treatment for obesity, [1] [2] [3] and there is substantial evidence this can prevent progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes with a 7–10% weight loss and manage cardiometabolic health for diabetic people with a ...

  6. Experts Say This Is One Of The Main Reasons Why Weight Loss ...

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    The evidence is there: Weight loss apps are helpful for initiating and sustaining weight loss between three and 12 months, according to a 2022 Journal of Medical Internet Research study. 4. You ...

  7. Signs and symptoms of Graves' disease - Wikipedia

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    Older patients also tend to have more weight loss and less of an increase in appetite. Thus anorexia in this group is fairly frequent, as is constipation . [ 4 ] Elderly patients may have what is called "apathetic thyrotoxicosis", a state in which they have less and less severe symptoms, except for weakness, depression and lethargy (making it ...

  8. Muscle atrophy - Wikipedia

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    Malnutrition first causes fat loss but may progress to muscle atrophy in prolonged starvation and can be reversed with nutritional therapy. In contrast, cachexia is a wasting syndrome caused by an underlying disease such as cancer that causes dramatic muscle atrophy and cannot be completely reversed with nutritional therapy.

  9. Bariatric surgeries drop sharply as people turn to Wegovy ...

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    That represented about 1% of all U.S. residents eligible for weight loss operations. Weight loss operations increased in 2022 from the year before, perhaps due to spillover from the COVID-19 ...