Gender associated differences in determinants of quality of life in patients with COPD: A case series study

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  de Torres, Juan P ^a   Casanova, Ciro ^a   Hernández, Concepción ^a   Abreu, Juan ^a   de Garcini, Angela Montejo ^a   Aguirre Jaime, Armando ^a   Celli, Bartolome R ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO NUESTRA SEÑORA DE CANDELARIA   (Spain)

^b ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE STUDY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OXYGENATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; WALKING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33750464498     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-4-72     Document Type: Article

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