title: Risk factors relating blood markers of inflammation and nutritional status to survival in cachectic geriatric patients in a randomized clinical trial.
authors.affiliation: Geriatric Division, Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Northport, New York 11768, USA. Shingshing.Yeh@med.va.gov
authors.forename: Shing-shing
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Yeh
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hafner
authors.forename: Chin-Kuo
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Daniel M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Levine
authors.forename: Thomas S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Michael W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Schuster
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002100:Cachexia / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D016207:Cytokines / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000097:blood*; D008297:Male; D019290:Megestrol Acetate / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009752:Nutritional Status; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D015430:Weight Gain
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D019290:Megestrol Acetate