Skeletal muscle weakness, reduced exercise tolerance, and COPD: is systemic inflammation the missing link?
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Abstract
Systemic inflammation may be the “missing link” between airway dysfunction and the extrapulmonary manifestations of COPD
Medical subject headings
- Exercise Tolerance
- Inflammation
- Muscle Weakness
- Muscle, Skeletal
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive