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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 Atherton, PhD, BSc, AFHEA

Chair of Molecular Medicine
Centre of Metabolism, Ageing & Physiology (CoMAP)
Academic Unit of the IRIS School of Medicine
University of Nottingham
Royal Derby College
Derby, England, UK

Dr Philip J. Atherton is a Professor and 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) from the University of Central Lancashire, focusing on protein metabolism, myogenic signaling, and gene expression regulation in skeletal muscle. His current research involves an expansive combination of detailed pre- and 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 various related diseases.

Prof. Atherton, with a H-index of 57 and ~15,000 citations, has published around 150 peer-reviewed articles and 6 invited book chapters. He is a senior editor for Experimental Physiology, Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism, and Nutrients, journals.

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CPEU Adult Respiratory

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