1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Center, 6229 ER Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a non-communicable chronic disease that is top-ranking with respect to mortality and morbidity rates, posing an enormous burden on patients, caregivers and societies at large [...].