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Increasing exercise capacity and physical activity in the COPD patient.

Antarpreet Kaur, Jean Bourbeau, Lisa Brighton, Bartolome Celli, Rebecca Crouch, Heleen Demeyer, Daniel A Gerardi, Hideki Katsura, Paula Meek, Mike Morgan and 3 more

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Review in Breathe (Sheffield, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. The effect of inspiratory muscle training on the inspiratory muscle metaboreflex: A systematic review.Canadian journal of respiratory therapy : CJRT = Revue canadienne de la therapie respiratoire : RCTR · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Antarpreet KaurSection of Pulmonary, Interventional Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT, USA.
Jean BourbeauRespiratory Epidemiology and Clinical Research Unit, Department of Medicine, McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), Montreal, QC, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7649-038X
Lisa BrightonCicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0516-0102
Bartolome CelliPulmonary and Critical Care Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7266-8371
Rebecca CrouchDuke University Hospital and Medical Center, Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy, Durham, NC, USA.
Heleen DemeyerDepartment of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Daniel A GerardiSection of Pulmonary, Interventional Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT, USA.
Hideki KatsuraDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan.
Paula MeekUniversity of Utah College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Mike MorganRetired, Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK.
Mara PaneroniIstituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Respiratory Rehabilitation Unit of the Institute of Lumezzane, Brescia, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3982-2098
Sally SinghDepartment of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9834-0366
Michael K SticklandDivision of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta and G.F. MacDonald Centre for Lung Health (Covenant Health), Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Higher levels of exercise capacity and physical activity are desired outcomes in the comprehensive management of the COPD patient. In addition, improvements in exercise capacity and physical activity are instrumental to optimising other important therapeutic goals, such as improved health status, reduced healthcare utilisation and increased survival. Four general approaches towards increasing exercise capacity and physical activity in individuals with COPD will be discussed in this review: 1) pharmacological intervention, especially the administration of long-acting bronchodilators; 2) pulmonary rehabilitation, including exercise training and collaborative self-management; 3) behavioural interventions; and 4) web-based interventions. These are by no means the only approaches, nor are they mutually exclusive: indeed, combining them, as necessary, to meet the needs of the individual respiratory patient may promote optimal outcomes, although further research is necessary in this area.

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PMID38873235
PMCPMC11167654

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