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Editorial
. 2019 Feb 1:276:204-205.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2018.10.048. Epub 2018 Oct 15.

Body mass loss is a surrogate marker of frailty in heart failure

Hai M Tang  1 , Loren Moon  1 , Jun Yoshioka  2
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Editorial

Body mass loss is a surrogate marker of frailty in heart failure

Hai M Tang et al. Int J Cardiol. .
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Fig. 1.
A possible mechanism of body mass loss in heart failure (HF). A reduction of body mass index is a sensitive marker of the severity of HF which represents the basis of outcome. Water imbalance, malnutrition, pro-inflammatory cytokines, metabolic imbalance, all play a role in muscle wasting (sarcopenia) that develops cardiac cachexia. Changes of BMI over the course of disease have a prognostic value in established HF patients.
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