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Does pulmonary rehabilitation address cardiovascular risk factors in patients with COPD?

BACKGROUND: Patients with COPD have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Whilst pulmonary rehabilitation has proven benefit for exercise tolerance and quality of life, any effect on cardiovascular risk has not been fully investigated. We hypothesised that pulmonary rehabilitation, through th...

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Autores principales: Gale, Nichola S, Duckers, James M, Enright, Stephanie, Cockcroft, John R, Shale, Dennis J, Bolton, Charlotte E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3110113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21510856
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-11-20