Inanition

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Under inanition or emaciation is meant a reduction in body weight to below 80% of normal weight . Causes can include:

During inanition, only the fat tissue of the storage fat deposits and the skeletal muscles are broken down ( catabolic metabolism ), but the building fat is still retained. The changes are still reversible . Without eliminating the causes, however, inanition soon leads to irreversible changes ( cachexia ).

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Individual evidence

  1. Franz Volhard : The bilateral hematogenous kidney diseases . In: Gustav von Bergmann , Rudolf Staehelin (ed.): Handbook of Internal Medicine , 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1931, Volume 6, p. 775.