Muscle mass, not body weight, predicts outcome in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 166, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 787-789

  Mador, M Jeffery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MUSCLE MASS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; THIGH; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037106373     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.2206003     Document Type: Editorial

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