Quantitative Computed Tomography Measures of Pectoralis Muscle Area and Disease Severity in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. A Cross-Sectional Study

Rationale: Muscle wasting in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with a poor prognosis and is not readily assessed by measures of body mass index (BMI). BMI does not discriminate between relative proportions of adipose tissue and lean muscle and may be insensitive to early pat...

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Main Authors: McDonald, Merry-Lynn N., Diaz, Alejandro A., Ross, James C., San Jose Estepar, Raul, Zhou, Linfu, Regan, Elizabeth A., Eckbo, Eric, Muralidhar, Nina, Come, Carolyn E., Cho, Michael H., Hersh, Craig P., Lange, Christoph, Wouters, Emiel, Casaburi, Richard H., Coxson, Harvey O., MacNee, William, Rennard, Stephen I., Lomas, David A., Agusti, Alvar, Celli, Bartolome R., Black-Shinn, Jennifer L., Kinney, Greg L., Lutz, Sharon M., Hokanson, John E., Silverman, Edwin K., Washko, George R.
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Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: American Thoracic Society 2014
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4028743/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24558953
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201307-229OC
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