Obesity in COPD: to treat or not to treat?

Expert Rev Respir Med. 2017 Feb;11(2):81-83. doi: 10.1080/17476348.2017.1267570. Epub 2016 Dec 10.

Vanessa M McDonald^{1

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3}, Lisa G Wood², Anne E Holland^{4

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6}, Peter G Gibson^{1

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3}

¹ a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre of Excellence in Severe Asthma , Newcastle , Australia.
² b Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs , The University of Newcastle , Newcastle , Australia.
³ c Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine , John Hunter Hospital , Newcastle , Australia.
⁴ d Discipline of Physiotherapy , La Trobe University , Melbourne , Australia.
⁵ e Department of Physiotherapy , Alfred Health , Melbourne , Australia.
⁶ f Institute for Breathing and Sleep , Melbourne , Australia.

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Keywords: COPD; comorbidity; management; obesity; respiratory.

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