Aging and COPD affect different domains of nutritional status - The ECCE study
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1) Dipartimento Biomedico di Medicina Interna e Specialistica (Di.Bi.M.I.S.), University of Palermo, Palermo Italy. 2) Chair of Geriatric Medicine, University Campus BioMedico, Rome, Italy. Corresponding Author: Dr. Salvatore Battaglia; Dipartimento Biomedico di Medicina Interna e Specialistica (Di.Bi.M.I.S.), Sezione di Pneumologia, University of Palermo, Palermo Italy c/o Ospedale "V. Cervello"; via Trabucco, 180 90146 Palermo, Italy. Phone +39 091 6802766; fax: +39 091 6882842; e-mail: [email protected] Running head: Malnutrition in aged COPD Word count for the body of the manuscript: 3161 . Published on November 11, 2010 as doi: 10.1183/09031936.00032310 ERJ Express
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Ageing and COPD affect different domains of nutritional status: the ECCE study.
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