Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 3 , Pages 378-388, March 2010

Mass of intercostal muscles associates with risk of multiple exacerbations in COPD

  • Roberto Güerri

      Affiliations

    • Servei de Medicina Interna, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Angel Gayete

      Affiliations

    • Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Eva Balcells

      Affiliations

    • Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Alba Ramirez-Sarmiento

      Affiliations

    • Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
    • Grup de Recerca en Lesió, Resposta Immune i Funció Pulmonar (LIF), Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), CEXS-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
    • CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CibeRes), ISCIII, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain
    • ,
  • Ivan Vollmer

      Affiliations

    • Servei de Radiodiagnostic CRC-Mar, Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Judith Garcia-Aymerich

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM-Hospital del Mar), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
    • ,
  • Joaquim Gea

      Affiliations

    • Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
    • Grup de Recerca en Lesió, Resposta Immune i Funció Pulmonar (LIF), Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), CEXS-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
    • CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CibeRes), ISCIII, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain
    • ,
  • Mauricio Orozco-Levi

      Affiliations

    • Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
    • Grup de Recerca en Lesió, Resposta Immune i Funció Pulmonar (LIF), Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica (IMIM), CEXS-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
    • CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CibeRes), ISCIII, Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Spain
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Servei de Pneumologia, Hospital del Mar, Passeig Marítim 25, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain. Fax: +34 93 221 3237.

Received 22 June 2009; accepted 19 October 2009. published online 23 November 2009.

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PII: S0954-6111(09)00348-5

doi:10.1016/j.rmed.2009.10.015

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 3 , Pages 378-388, March 2010

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