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Review series
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • 5: Systemic effects of COPD
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  1. E F M Wouters
  1. Correspondence to:
    E F M Wouters, Department of Pulmonology, University Hospital Maastricht, 6202 AZ Maastricht, The Netherlands
    ewo{at}slon.azm.nl

Abstract

The role of body cell mass wasting, muscle wasting, and changes in muscle metabolism in the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is reviewed.

  • chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • muscle wasting
  • body cell mass

https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax.57.12.1067

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