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Respiratory Disease & Muscle: Nutritional Interventions to Support Our Patients

Program Date: 04 May 2022

Publication Date: 04 August 2022

Continuing Education Credits: Dietitian 0.75 CPEU

Course Description

In this course, Philip J. Atherton, PhD, will describe the importance of muscle in patients with respiratory disease; explain how muscle is lost, the detrimental consequences of muscle loss, and why maintaining and rebuilding muscle can improve outcomes for these subgroups; and review nutritional interventions to support patients in maintaining muscle. Originally presented as a live webinar on 04 May 2022.

Course Objectives
  • Describe the importance of muscle in patients with respiratory disease.
  • Explain how muscle is lost, the detrimental consequences of muscle loss, and why maintaining and rebuilding muscle can improve outcomes for these subgroups.
  • Describe links between malnutrition and muscle loss.
  • Review nutritional interventions (eg, beta‐hydroxy‐beta‐methylbutyrate, protein, and vitamin D) to support patients in maintaining muscle.

Performance Indicators: 9.1.1, 9.1.5, 9.2.1

Activity Code: 186247

Course Instructor Bio(s)

Philip J Atherton, PhD, AFHEA

Director, Centre of Metabolism, Ageing and Physiology (COMAP)
MRC-Versus Arthritis Centre of Excellence
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, Derby, UK

Dr Philip J. Atherton is Chair of Clinical, Metabolic, and Molecular Physiology at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He received a 1st Class BSc degree and a higher PhD degree (in 2005) focusing upon protein metabolism, myogenic signaling, and gene expression regulation in skeletal muscle from the University of Central Lancashire. His current research involves an expansive combining of detailed pre/clinical molecular physiology with the application of stable isotope methodologies and the integration of OMIC techniques to discover predictors of the mechanistic basis for and how to mitigate musculoskeletal declines in aging and myriad related diseases. Atherton, with a H-index of 57 and ~15000 citations, has published ~150 peer-reviewed articles and 6 invited book chapters. He is a senior editor for the journals Experimental Physiology, Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism, and Nutrients.

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CPEU Adult Respiratory

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