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2 results for "European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Meeting"

Annual recollection of exacerbations in patients with COPD: Impact on physical activity

  • Presented on Sept. 9, 2013

Rationale The number of exacerbations in the previous year has shown to be the best predictor of new exacerbations. The ability to recall exacerbations may lead to misclassification of patients and may have consequences on patients’ phenotype. Methods 47 patients with COPD (FEV1 65±21%pred) reported on a monthly basis all health ...

Agreement of classification of COPD patients’ physical activity with two activity monitors

  • Presented on Sept. 8, 2013

Rationale It is unclear whether different activity monitors provide similar classification of physical activity (PA) in patients with COPD. Aim To test whether similar PA classification of patients would be obtained when using 2 valid activity monitors. Methods We assessed PA for 4 weeks with Actigraph [(ACT: Steps and vector magnitude units (...