SUSCEPTIBILITY OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE AMONG BIKE RIDERS IN BANGALORE USING BODE INDEX
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The BODE index predicted death in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
and commentary also appear in ACP Journal Club. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For correspondence: Dr B R Celli, St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA. [email protected] Source of funding: no external funding. BODE index for predicting death in chronic obstr...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Physiotherapy
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2348-8336,2349-5987
DOI: 10.15621/ijphy/2015/v2i3/67031