Open Access<p>Easy to Perform Physical Performance Tests to Identify COPD Patients with Low Physical Activity in Clinical Practice</p>
Author(s) -
Zinka Matković,
Neven Tudorić,
Danijel Cvetko,
Cristina Esquinas,
Dario Rahelić,
Marko Žarak,
Marc Miravitlles
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s246571
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , physical therapy , population , rank correlation , sarcopenia , asymptomatic , cardiology , physical activity , environmental health , machine learning , computer science
The study investigates which physical performance or muscle function/mass tests significantly correlate with objectively measured physical activity (PA) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and could potentially serve to identify physically inactive COPD patients in routine clinical practice.