To find out, Patell's team tracked outcomes for more than 558,000 Americans enrolled in a major health care database
None of them is active at MC2R, the adrenocorticotropin receptor
Publicly available datasets reported in this paper are from the GEO databases (GSE13911, GSE27342, and GSE13861) and The Cancer Genome Atlas
If a patient is eating dramatically less, or skipping meals because they are not hungry, they may also be taking in less protein, less iron, less calcium, less magnesium, and fewer vitamins
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