medications or another condition.
Muscle Weakness or Loss of Muscle
Gradual weakness
can have many causes, including normal deconditioning, inadequate nutrition, neurological disorders and medication effects.
Significant muscle loss can also occur with advanced liver disease.
NIDDK notes that clinicians may look for muscle loss when evaluating signs of cirrhosis in people with fatty liver disease.
Increasing difficulty standing from a chair, climbing stairs or completing activities that were previously easy deserves investigation, especially when accompanied by other unexplained health changes.
Yellow Skin or Eyes
