Pulmonary rehabilitation effective for both obese and slim COPD patients
Sunday, May 16, 2010 - 11:50
in Health & Medicine
Obese patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) stand to gain as much from pulmonary rehabilitation as their slimmer counterparts, even though as a group they have a lower exercise capacity, according to new research from the University Hospitals of Leicester in the UK.