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Pure protein-energy malnutrition (starvation) responds dramatically to nutritional support, unlike cachexia, because the primary mechanism is an energy deficit rather than active catabolic signaling.
If weight loss is due to not eating enough or not absorbing food (malnutrition), providing adequate nutrition will reverse the wasting.
ModerateSupportsHIGH confidence
Nutritional support highly effective: the following conditions are entirely due to an imbalance between intake and requirements and respond dramatically to feeding
Why this rating
Review paper citing general clinical knowledge.
Source
Malnutrition, fatigue, frailty, vulnerability, sarcopenia and cachexia
Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy · Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care · 2012
DOI 10.1097/mco.0b013e328352694f
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