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Profile of the level of physical activity in the daily lives of patients with COPD in Brazil.

Nidia Aparecida NA Hernandes, Denilson de Castro Dde C Teixeira, Vanessa Suziane VS Probst, Antonio Fernando AF Brunetto, Ercy Mara Cipulo EM Ramos, and Fábio F Pitta

J Bras Pneumol 35(10):949-56 (2009) PMID 19918626

To evaluate characteristics of physical activities in daily life in COPD patients in Brazil, correlating those characteristics with physiological variables.

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