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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

How should I define cachexia and anorexia when I’m talking to fellow students or thinking about it in my own clinical practice? I think the very simple, practical thing is involuntary weight loss. Eduardo 25:39 I think that’s wonderful, Alex, because all our social and even religious events have metaphors of food.

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Redefining Alzheimer’s Disease: A Podcast with Heather Whitson, Jason Karlawish, Lon Schneider

GeriPal

You can easily have fibrinoid necrosis of your kidneys and not have hypertension, but the pathology of hypertension is most commonly associated with fibrinoid necrosis. Jason: You could have hypertension and have no signs and symptoms. So too systolic hypertension in elderly people, clinical trials. You can see it.

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