Body wasting has long been recognised as a diovascular disorders in Africa is rapidly
becoming serious manifestation of disease. The term cachexia indistinguishable from that
observed in developed was originally coined by the Greeks from the words countries [6].
kakos (meaning 'bad') and hexis (meaning 'condi- The paper presented by Ajayi and
colleagues in the tion'). Although the occurrence of wasting in chronic previous issue of The
International Journal of Car-heart failure (CHF) has been known for many diology …