Continuous fat-free mass decline in COPD: fact or fiction?

Affiliations

• ¹ Dept of Research and Education, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands ericarutten@ciro-horn.nl.
• ² Dept of Research and Education, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands REVAL - Rehabilitation Research Center, BIOMED - Biomedical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
• ³ Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁴ Division of Internal Medicine, University of Nebraska, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
• ⁵ Thorax Institute, Hospital Clinic, IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain CIBERES, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁶ Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁷ GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, PA, USA.
• ⁸ GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
• ⁹ The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ¹⁰ Medical Nutrition Education, University of Nebraska, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
• ¹¹ The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹² Dept of Research and Education, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands.
• ¹³ Dept of Research and Education, CIRO, Horn, The Netherlands Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.