specmine (version 1.0)

cachexia: Human Cachexia data

Description

Cachexia is a complex metabolic syndrome associated with an underlying illness (such as cancer) and characterized by loss of muscle with or without loss of fat mass (Evans et al., 2008). A total of 77 urine samples were collected being 47 of them patients with cachexia, and 30 control patients.

Usage

data(cachexia)

Format

An object of class "list"

Source

MetaboAnalyst

References

Eisner et al. (2010) Learning to predict cancer-associated skeletal muscle wasting from 1h-nmr profiles of urinary metabolites Metabolomics 7:25-34

Examples

	data(cachexia)
    sum_dataset(cachexia)