Article
Somatotypes trajectories during adulthood and its association with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) phenotypes
2020-03-09
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) comprises distinct phenotypes, all characterized by airflow limitation. Research Question We hypothesized that somatotype changes -as surrogate of adiposity- from early adulthood follow different trajectories to reach distinct phenotypes. Methods Using the validated Stunkard’s pictogram, 356 COPD patients chose the somatotype that...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 790476b8-75b1-51cf-9d00-2004b4da4b6f
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-16401/v1
