Obesity and metabolic syndrome in COPD: is exercise the answer?

Approximately half of all patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) attending pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programmes are overweight or obese which negatively impacts upon dyspnoea and exercise tolerance particularly when walking. Within the obese population (without COPD), the obs...

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Main Authors: B. James, Amy V. Jones, Ruth Pearson, Rachel A. Evans
Format: Default Article
Published: 2017
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Other health sciences not elsewhere classified
COPD
Obesity
Metabolic syndrome
Exercise
Pulmonary rehabilitation
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/28010
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