Why do patients with emphysema lose weight?

The Lancet

Volumn 345, Issue 8959, 1995, Pages 1190-1191

  Sridhar, MangalamK ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EMPHYSEMA; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MONOCYTE; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0029050587     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(95)91984-8     Document Type: Article

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