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Abdominal muscle fatigue following exercise in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND: In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a restriction on maximum ventilatory capacity contributes to exercise limitation. It has been demonstrated that the diaphragm in COPD is relatively protected from fatigue during exercise. Because of expiratory flow limitation the ab...

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Autores principales: Hopkinson, Nicholas S, Dayer, Mark J, Moxham, John, Polkey, Michael I
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2824704/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20132549
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-11-15