Factors limiting exercise tolerance in chronic lung diseases

Comprehensive Physiology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1779-1817

  Vogiatzis, Ioannis ^a   Zakynthinos, Spyros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION;

EXERCISE TOLERANCE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84868131608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20404603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c110015     Document Type: Article

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