Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 3 , Pages 389-396 , March 2010

Breath-by-breath quantification of progressive airflow limitation during exercise in COPD: A new method

  • Shuyi Ma

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 W Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
    • ,
  • Ariel Hecht

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 W Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
    • ,
  • Janos Varga

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 W Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
    • ,
  • Mehdi Rambod

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 W Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
    • ,
  • Sarah Morford

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 W Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
    • ,
  • Shinichi Goto

      Affiliations

    • Tokyo Women's Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Richard Casaburi

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 W Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 310 222 8200; fax: +1 310 222 8249.
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  • Janos Porszasz

      Affiliations

    • Rehabilitation Clinical Trials Center, Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1124 W Carson Street, Torrance, CA 90502, USA

Received 13 August 2009 ,Accepted 19 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.10.014

Respiratory Medicine
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