cachexia: Human cachexia data

Description Usage Format Source References

Description

Cachexia is a complex metabolic syndrome associated with an underlying illness (such as cancer) and characterized by loss of muscle with or without loss of fat mass (Evans et al., 2008). A total of 77 urine samples were collected being 47 of them patients with cachexia, and 30 control patients.

Usage

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Format

An object of class "list"

Source

MetaboAnalyst

References

Eisner et al. (2010) Learning to predict cancer-associated skeletal muscle wasting from 1h-nmr profiles of urinary metabolites Metabolomics 7:25-34


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