Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Sarcobesity: Overweight cancer patients may be malnourished

Overweight cancer patients may be malnourished

Thu Nov 20, 2014 

"Some overweight cancer patients who also have well-developed musculature will have a good prognosis, but those with excess fat and muscle loss, called ‘sarcopenia,’ generally have a very poor prognosis, Gioulbasanis said.
Most of the undernourished obese people in this study probably had sarcopenic obesity, he said."

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