Autophagy is a conserved intracellular catabolic pathway that allows cells to maintain homeostasis through the degradation of deleterious components via specialized double-membrane vesicles called autophagosomes. During the past decades, it has been revealed that numero...

Malnutrition is one of the components of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA), but the mini nutritional assessment (MNA), which is the proposed screening tool in geriatrics, was challenged in its capacity to predict adverse outcomes in severely ill older patients. T...