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Undernutrition in Patients with COPD and Its Treatment

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the lung and whole body caused mainly by tobacco smoking. Patients with advanced COPD are in a state of undernutrition, referred to as pulmonary cachexia; the exercise performance and quality of life (QOL) of these pa...

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Autores principales: Itoh, Masayuki, Tsuji, Takao, Nemoto, Kenji, Nakamura, Hiroyuki, Aoshiba, Kazutetsu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705350/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23598440
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu5041316