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Frailty, a Dimension of Impaired Functional Status in Advanced COPD: Utility and Clinical Applicability
2021
Medicina
and Objectives: In advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), functional status is significantly impaired mainly as a result of disease related respiratory symptoms such as dyspnea or as a result of fatigue, which is the extra-respiratory symptom the most prevalent in this setting. "Physical" frailty, considered to be an aging phenotype, has defining traits that can also be considered when studying impaired functional status, but little is known about this relationship in advanced
doi:10.3390/medicina57050474
pmid:34064756
pmcid:PMC8150879
fatcat:2pveibbxbjfvbcnrtdcejqgjki