The role of body cell mass wasting, muscle wasting, and changes in muscle metabolism in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is reviewed.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy affecting North American cervids. Because it is uniformly fatal, the disease is a major concern in the management of white-tailed deer populations. Management programs to control CWD require improved knowledge of deer interaction, movement, and population connectivity that could influence disease transmission and spread....

BACKGROUND Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a contagious, fatal prion disease affecting cervids in a growing number of regions across North America. Projected deer population declines and concern about potential spread of CWD to other species warrant strategies to manage this disease. Control efforts to date have been largely unsuccessful, resulting in continuing spread and increasing prevalenc...

Predicting the spread of wildlife disease is critical for identifying populations at risk, targeting surveillance and designing proactive management programmes. We used a landscape genetics approach to identify landscape features that influenced gene flow and the distribution of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Wisconsin white-tailed deer. CWD prevalence was negatively correlated with genetic d...

Proteineenergy malnutrition has been proposed to be a cause of refractory anemia that accompanies the malnutritioneinflammation complex (or cachexia) syndrome in dialysis patients. Malnutritioneinflammation complex syndrome and the obesity paradox are also the main etiology for “reverse epidemiology” of cardiovascular risk factors and outcomes in dialysis patients. However, in some dialysis pat...

Behçet’s ‎disease is a multisystem vasculitis. Its neurological involvement mostly includes parenchymal and non-parenchymal central nervous system manifestations. Peripheral nervous system presentations are rare. A 32-yr-old male patient who fulfilled the international study group criteria for Behçet’s disease, referred to our center with walking difficulty and repeated falling downs. Neurologi...

Objective: To determine the frequency of protein energy wasting among end stage renal disease patients on maintenance hemodialysis.
 Study Design: Cross-sectional analytical study.
 Place and Duration Study: Department Nephrology, Pak Emirates Military Hospital, Rawalpindi Pakistan, from May 2019 to Mar 2020.
 Methodology: Two hundered diagnosed with end-stage hemodialysis were i...