The Conceptual Independence of Health Status, Respiratory Symptoms and Dyspnea in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Real Clinical Practice

The hypothesis that health status is the highest ranking concept, followed by respiratory symptoms and dyspnea as the lowest ranking concepts in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was tested in a real clinical setting with 157 subjects with stable COPD. Spearman’s rank correl...

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Main Authors: Koichi Nishimura, Masaaki Kusunose, Mio Mori, Ayumi Shibayama, Kazuhito Nakayasu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-07-01
Series:Diagnostics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/13/15/2492