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Why does cachexia and loss of muscle mass often accompany COPD?
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Eating requires energy, and the effort of chewing/swallowing while breathless increases oxygen demand and can lower O2 saturation, so patients eat less and lose weight
B.
COPD medications directly suppress the patient's appetite, causing weight loss
C.
The increased work of breathing raises caloric expenditure while dyspnea, fatigue, and early satiety reduce intake, creating a chronic energy deficit that leads to muscle wasting
D.
COPD and cachexia are unrelated conditions that simply occur together by coincidence
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