Smoking and Early COPD as Independent Predictors of Body Composition, Exercise Capacity, and Health Status.

The effects of tobacco smoke, mild/moderate COPD disease and their combined effect on health status (HS), body composition (BC), and exercise capacity (EC) impairment are still unclear. We hypothesized that smoking and early COPD have a joint negative influence on these outcomes. We evaluated 32 smo...

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Main Authors: Laura Miranda de Oliveira Caram, Renata Ferrari, André Luís Bertani, Thaís Garcia, Carolina Bonfanti Mesquita, Caroline Knaut, Suzana Erico Tanni, Irma Godoy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5063276?pdf=render