Pulmonary Rehabilitation Improves Cardiovascular Response to Exercise in COPD
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Pulmonary rehabilitation improves cardiovascular response to exercise in COPD.
BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has emerged as a recommended standard of care in symptomatic COPD. OBJECTIVES We now studied whether PR may affect cardiovascular response to exercise in these patients. METHODS Twenty-seven patients (9 females aged 69 ± 8 years) with moderate-to-severe airflow obstruction admitted to a 9-week PR course performed a pre-to-post evaluation of lung func...
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عنوان ژورنال: Respiration
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1423-0356,0025-7931
DOI: 10.1159/000348726