Extract
Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is a comprehensive intervention recognised as a core component in the treatment of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [1]. Comorbidities are highly prevalent in patients with COPD entering PR [2–4], which may be associated with the change in exercise performance and health status after PR [3–5]. Nonetheless, previous studies used self-reported and/or chart-based comorbidities, and only the impact of individual comorbidities or arbitrarily grouped comorbidities were studied [3, 4].
Abstract
Patients with COPD and multiple comorbidities can still benefit from pulmonary rehabilitation http://ow.ly/LXAWc
Footnotes
Support statement: R. Mesquita is supported by CNPq, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico – Brazil (246704/2012-8). This study was supported by a research grant from AstraZeneca. Funding information for this article has been deposited with FundRef
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- Received January 21, 2015.
- Accepted April 6, 2015.
- Copyright ©ERS 2015