A prospective study of decline in fat free mass and skeletal muscle strength in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND: Skeletal muscle depletion is an important complication of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but little prospective data exists about the rate at which it occurs and the factors that promote its development. We therefore prospectively investigated the impact of disease severity...

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Autores principales: Hopkinson, Nicholas S, Tennant, Rachel C, Dayer, Mark J, Swallow, Elisabeth B, Hansel, Trevor T, Moxham, John, Polkey, Michael I
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1832189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17355636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-8-25

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1832189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17355636
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-8-25

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