Risk of mortality in older adults with loss of appetite: An analysis of Medicare fee-for-service data.

Simon Dagenais¹, Sunday Clark², Roger A Fielding³, Cera Cantu⁴, Sapna Prasad⁴, Feng Dai², John D Groarke⁵

¹Pfizer, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: simon.dagenais@pfizer.com.

²Pfizer, New York, NY, USA.

³Nutrition, Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA.

⁴Clarify Health, San Francisco, CA, USA.

⁵Pfizer, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Prior research suggested that loss of appetite (LOA) among adults with Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) insurance in the United States increased the risk of mortality within 1 year; those findings were not adjusted for risk factors and confounders. The objective of this study was to compare the risk of mortality among Medicare FFS beneficiaries with LOA to a control group without LOA whi…

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