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Lower limb acivity in COPD
As Morgan reminds us in his editorial in this month’s Thorax, maintaining physical activity plays an integral role in health and an increase in physical activity leads to a better prognosis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In this issue, using activity monitoring, Walker and colleagues show that lower limb activity is reduced in COPD compared with normal patients and also lower limb activity is related to total daily activity. Lower limb activity improved after pulmonary rehabilitation and was predicted by forced expiratory volume in 1 s. However, as Morgan summarises at the end of his editorial, the results show that activity in COPD was not related to quality of life or functional exercise capacity and is thus a different domain of outcome measurement.See pages 663 and 683
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In this issue, we publish a paper by Hui and colleagues that examines influenza-like illness in four residential care homes
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