{"id":4501,"date":"2010-11-18T21:01:42","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T01:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4501"},"modified":"2010-11-18T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T01:01:42","slug":"cardiac-cachexia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/18\/cardiac-cachexia\/","title":{"rendered":"cardiac cachexia&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/17\/AR2010111706936.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cheney&#8217;s lean and hungry look<\/a><br \/> Washington Post<\/strong><br \/> November 18, 2010<\/div>\n<p> When does  skinny look too skinny? The question popped up Tuesday after  an appearance by . . . another reed-thin starlet? Nope &#8211; former vice  president <em>Dick Cheney<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p> A noticeably slimmer Cheney, 69, attended Tuesday&#8217;s groundbreaking for  the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas. &quot;The former vice  president lost weight while being hospitalized last summer for heart  surgery,&quot; spokesman Peter Long told our colleague Manuel Roig-Franzia.  &quot;He hopes to keep it off as it is healthier for him to doso&quot;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"228\" height=\"193\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/photo\/2010\/11\/17\/PH2010111706939.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">I suppose we got so used to hearing what they wanted us to hear [spin] that we don&#8217;t question what we&#8217;re told. What we&#8217;re seeing here is very unlikely voluntary weight loss. It looks like what is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio.unipd.it\/bam\/PDF\/13-4\/03543Steinborn.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cardiac Cachexia<\/strong><\/a> or <strong>Cardiac Wasting<\/strong>. It is a syndrome of generalized tissue wasting seen in severe chronic heart failure and is an ominous prognostic sign. Nobody&#8217;s mentioning that fact, though it&#8217;s in the music of almost every report. If he chooses to be private about the extent of his illness, he&#8217;d be best advised to stay out of the public spotlight.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheney&#8217;s lean and hungry look Washington Post November 18, 2010 When does skinny look too skinny? The question popped up Tuesday after an appearance by . . . another reed-thin starlet? Nope &#8211; former vice president Dick Cheney. A noticeably slimmer Cheney, 69, attended Tuesday&#8217;s groundbreaking for the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}