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Echocardiographic predictors of exercise capacity and mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) reduces exercise capacity, but lung function parameters do not fully explain functional class and lung-heart interaction could be the explanation. We evaluated echocardiographic predictors of mortality and six minutes walking distance (6MWD),...

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Autores principales: Schoos, Mikkel Malby, Dalsgaard, Morten, Kjærgaard, Jesper, Moesby, Dorte, Jensen, Sidse Graff, Steffensen, Ida, Iversen, Kasper Karmark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3852306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24118827
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2261-13-84

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