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===Cachexia and Malnutrition === Cachexia and malnutrition are related but not the same. Malnutrition happens when the body doesn't get enough nutrients, leading to changes in body weight, physical strength, and mental function.<ref name="cederholm-2017" /><ref name="muscaritoli-2009" /> Malnutrition includes both disease-related malnutrition as well as malnutrition without disease such as seen in starvation or aging.<ref name="cederholm-2017" /> Cachexia should be viewed as a type of malnutrition in which inflammation from a long-term illness causes unwanted muscle loss.<ref name="cederholm-2017" />
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