Editorial: Constant work rate exercise testing: A tricky measure of exercise tolerance

COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 317-319

  Casaburi, Richard ^a   Porszasz, Janos ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDITORIAL; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE TEST; HUMAN; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; WALKING; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 70350118714     PISSN: 15412555     EISSN: 15412563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15412550903240152     Document Type: Editorial

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