Body mass, fat-free body mass, and prognosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from a random population sample: findings from the Copenhagen City Heart Study.

By Jorgen Vestbo, E. Prescott, T. Almdal, M. Dahl, Børge G. Nordestgaard, T. Andersen, T. Sørensen, P. Lange. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2006

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Subfields: Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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• An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: update on limb muscle dysfunction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (2014, methodology): “composition revealed that reduced muscle mass occurs in 4 to 35% of patients with COPD (2, 19, 20), this proportion being”
• Canadian Thoracic Society recommendations for management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - 2007 update. (2007, background): “Other important outcomes which provide prognostic information include the number and severity of exacerbations and hospitalizations (92-97), age (78,98-101), nutritional status (body weight [52], fat-free mass [53], body mass index [53,78,99,102]), the presence of gas exchange abnormalities (diffusi”