Oleomargarine and Wasting Diseases

A Study of Creatine Metabolism in Diseases Causing Muscle Wasting.

Discussion around statin discontinuation in older adults and patients with wasting diseases

Statins are usually selected as the first-line therapy to lower plasma levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality. They reduce the risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and CVD mortality by about 25–30%. That is one of the reasons why all current clinical guidelines ‘virtually mandate’ lifetime use of statins once they are star...

ESPEN Guidelines on Enteral Nutrition: Wasting in HIV and other chronic infectious diseases.

Undernutrition (wasting) is still frequent in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), despite recent decreases in the prevalence of undernutrition in western countries (as opposed to developing countries) due to the use of highly active antiretroviral treatment. Undernutrition has been shown to have a negative prognostic effect independently of immunodeficiency and viral ...

Automatic Detection and Recognition of Pig Wasting Diseases Using Sound Data in Audio Surveillance Systems

Automatic detection of pig wasting diseases is an important issue in the management of group-housed pigs. Further, respiratory diseases are one of the main causes of mortality among pigs and loss of productivity in intensive pig farming. In this study, we propose an efficient data mining solution for the detection and recognition of pig wasting diseases using sound data in audio surveillance sy...

Counteracting muscle wasting in aging and neuromuscular diseases: the critical role of IGF-1

Most muscle pathologies are characterized by the progressive loss of muscle tissue due to chronic degeneration combined with the inability of regeneration machinery to replace the damaged muscle. These pathological changes, known as muscle wasting, can be attributed to the activation of several proteolytic systems, such as calpain, ubiquitin-proteasome and caspases, and to the alteration in mus...