Prevalence
According to the 2007 AHRQ National Inpatient sample, in a projected 129,164 hospital encounters in the United States, cachexia was listed as at least one of up to 14 listed diagnosis codes, based on a sample of 26,325 unweighted encounters. The CDC National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, a sample of US outpatient visits listed no visits where cachexia was listed as one of up to three recorded diagnoses treated during the visit, out of a sample of 32,778 unweighted visits.
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