Quantitative Assessment of Erector Spinae Muscles in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Novel Chest Computed Tomography–derived Index for Prognosis - Tanimura, Kazuya; Sato, Susumu; Fuseya, Yoshinori; Hasegawa, Koichi; Uemasu, Kiyoshi; Sato, Atsuyasu; Oguma, Tsuyoshi; Hirai, Toyohiro; Mishima, Michiaki; Muro, Shigeo (Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2016)
Keywords: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Case-Control Studies; Exercise; Humans; Japan; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Lung - physiopathology; Male; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Muscle, Skeletal - diagnostic imaging; Muscle, Skeletal - physiopathology; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Prospective Studies; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnostic imaging; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - mortality; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology; Respiratory Function Tests; Risk Factors; Severity of Illness Index; Smoking; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; computed tomography; mortality; skeletal muscle; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; physical activity