Exercise training in patients with COPD: One leg is better than two?

Chest

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 337-339

  Mador, M Jeffery ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYCLING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; EDITORIAL; EXERCISE; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMOKING CESSATION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 39449115977     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.07-2381     Document Type: Editorial

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