weight loss/fatigue

Background Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) . The disease was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, and has since spread globally, resulting in the ongoing

Background and purpose: Frailty is a continuous decline of multiple physiological systems along with aging. Common characteristics of frailty are fatigue, weakness, weight loss, slowness, and low physical activity. Brain changes accompanying frailty may lead to cognitive decline. Moreover, evidence

According to global cancer statistics, the most commonly diagnosing and the highest mortality rates belong to lung cancer. As known, patients with lung cancer suffer from many pathophysiological changes due to characteristics of the lung cancer and its cytotoxic treatments including chemotherapy and

Patients undergoing pancreatic surgery, even treated in high-volume centers, still experience significant postoperative morbidity and full recovery after surgery takes longer than expected, delaying access to adjuvant oncologic treatment and influencing disease prognosis and patient quality of life.

Background and project rationale: Cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common lethal inherited disease in Caucasian populations, affects approximately 1:2500 live births. It is a multisystem disorder with respiratory morbidity and mortality being the leading cause of death. Despite improved survival in

The inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic inflammatory disorders of the gastrointestinal tract that manifests as Crohn's disease (CD) and Ulcerative colitis (UC), clinically characterized by periods of remission interrupted by episodes of clinical disease activity (Zallot et al., 2013).

Study design All patients with symptoms compatible with pancreatic cancer living in the northern catchment area of the Capital Region of Copenhagen, Denmark, are referred to Dept. of Surgery, Hospital of North Zealand for further investigations. Cases diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are discussed

In all subjects aged 65 or older visiting consecutively the resort over a 5-month period, a questionnaire was administered in order to record: - The number of falls and injurious falls in the previous 12 months. Injurious falls are falls complicated by serious or moderate injuries. Falls with

The decrease in functional capacity is a finding that affects quality of life in chronic liver diseases. In a study, 6 Minute Walk Test was associated with mortality in patients with cirrhosis and survival was lower in patients walking less than 250 meters. Malnutrition is a common complication of

Obesity is increasing exponentially in the United States (US), and over 160 million Americans are either overweight or obese. A combined diet and exercise program is the most cost-effective alternative for weight management, but there is a considerable inter-individual variability in losing weight

Gastritis is a very common disease in children. The main presentation of children with gastritis is recurrent abdominal pain and dyspepsia or vomiting. Young children may have hematemesis or melena as presentation. Drug induced or food related gastritis presents usually with acute symptoms but

The growing Brazilian population aging is accompanied by the emergence of common diseases in this age group, including osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent musculoskeletal disease, affecting 4% of the Brazilian population. There is important morbidity which progressively leads

A growing body of published evidence indicates that meditative movement (MM) practices may be helpful for body composition improvement. Less strenuous forms of exercise that include a focus on the breath and meditative state (i.e., "meditative movement" such as Yoga, Qigong, or Tai Chi) may be