Background Tidal expiratory flow limitation (EFL T ) is frequently found in patients with
COPD and can be detected by forced oscillations when within-breath reactance of a single-breath …

… exercise-induced pathophysiological conditions constitute risk factors of death for
moderate-to-very severe COPD … After the death of a COPD patient 20 years ago, we had first …

… Deaths were captured at the biannual follow-up … of death were ascertained from the treating
primary care doctors. We focused on all-cause death since determination of causes of death …

… analyses contrasting lung function and exercise variables performance in predicting all-…
in this study, risk of death. Ventilatory inefficiency in COPD likely conflates the overlapping …

… There were 107,000 deaths due to COPD in 1998, and, extrapolating from the 1998 data,
in the current year there will be about 115,000 deaths due to COPD. Assuming that on the …

… that UL and LL exercise training in COPD patients achieved a clinically significant increase
in health-related quality of life and exercise tolerance and a decrease in the risk of death as …

… Four hundred nine COPD patients were recruited from primary care practices in Switzerland
… The outcomes of interest were mortality (exact dates of death retrieved from patients’ …

… assessments of exercise performance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), …
evidence-based COPD management), increased their risk of premature death. Combination of …

… In COPD patients, the … exercise performance in lowlanders with COPD ascending from 490
to 2,590 m and to test the hypothesis that altitude-induced changes in exercise performance …

… , dyspnea, and quality of life in selected patients with COPD. Physiologic prediction of …
disease (COPD) affects at least 15 million Americans, is the fifth leading cause of death in the …