Review Article

Respiratory Consequences of Mild-to-Moderate Obesity: Impact on Exercise Performance in Health and in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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FRC and ERV decreased exponentially with increasing BMI in adult patients with normal airway function (for both regressions,   and   ). The horizontal lines for FRC are the average upper limit of normal (ULN) and lower limit of normal (LLN) for men and women, from Jones and Nzekwu [9].
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