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Handgrip weakness and mortality risk in COPD: a multicentre analysis
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  • Chris Burtin Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Rehabilitation Research Centre, Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gerben ter Riet Department of General Practice, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Milo A Puhan Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Benjamin Waschki LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Grosshansdorf, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Judith Garcia-Aymerich Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Victor Pinto-Plata Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Division, Baystate Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Bartolome Celli Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Henrik Watz LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Grosshansdorf, Germany Pulmonary Research Institute, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center for Lung Research, Grosshansdorf, Germany PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Martijn A Spruit Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Rehabilitation Research Centre, Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium Department of Research & Education, CIRO+ Center of Expertise for Chronic Organ Failure, Horn, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Chris Burtin, Rehabilitation Research Centre, Biomedical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium; chris.burtin{at}uhasselt.be
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Burtin C, ter Riet G, Puhan MA, et al
Handgrip weakness and mortality risk in COPD: a multicentre analysis
Thorax 2016;71:86-87.

Publication history

  • Received June 17, 2015
  • Revised September 10, 2015
  • Accepted October 6, 2015
  • First published October 29, 2015.
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September 01, 2022

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