It’s more than low BMI: prevalence of cachexia and associated mortality in COPD

BACKGROUND: Cachexia is associated with increased mortality risk among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. However, low body mass index (BMI) as opposed to cachexia is often used, particularly when calculating the BODE (BMI, Obstruction, Dyspnea and Exercise) index. For this reaso...

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Autores principales: McDonald, Merry-Lynn N., Wouters, Emiel F. M., Rutten, Erica, Casaburi, Richard, Rennard, Stephen I., Lomas, David A., Bamman, Marcas, Celli, Bartolome, Agusti, Alvar, Tal-Singer, Ruth, Hersh, Craig P., Dransfield, Mark, Silverman, Edwin K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6532157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31118043
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-019-1073-3

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