Relationship between skeletal muscle function, body composition, and weight loss in patients with advanced pancreatic and gastrointestinal cancers.
P Cresta MorgadoM DaudM CarballidoG MéndezS IseasV LobbeG De SimoneAlfredo NavigantePublished in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2018)
In advanced digestive cancer, sub-maximal strength correlated inversely with weight loss and directly with skeletal muscle such as in lung and head and neck cancers. On the other hand, endurance had no correlation with any of the variables considered.
Keyphrases
- skeletal muscle
- body composition
- weight loss
- resistance training
- bariatric surgery
- roux en y gastric bypass
- insulin resistance
- bone mineral density
- gastric bypass
- papillary thyroid
- childhood cancer
- squamous cell
- obese patients
- weight gain
- squamous cell carcinoma
- type diabetes
- young adults
- body mass index
- metabolic syndrome
- physical activity