作者: Jeffrey I. Wallace , Robert S. Schwartz
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-0690(18)30146-0
关键词: Medical screening 、 Psychiatry 、 Involuntary weight loss 、 Older people 、 Medicine 、 Elderly patient 、 Weight loss 、 Incidence (epidemiology) 、 Etiology 、 Pediatrics
摘要: Weight loss appears to occur frequently in older adults and has been associated with increased morbidity mortality. However, the significance of weight per se optimal clinical approach outpatients who are losing is not completely understood. This article reviews existing literature on people outlines a basic for clinician faced common, but often difficult, diagnostic management issues presented by an elderly patient loss.