title: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart failure: two muscle diseases?
abstract: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure are two increasingly prevalent chronic diseases. Although care for these patients often is provided by different clinical teams, both disease conditions have much in common. In recent decades, more knowledge about the systemic impact of both diseases has become available, highlighting remarkable similarities in terms of prognostic factors and disease management. Rehabilitation programs deal with the systemic consequences of both diseases. Although clinical research also is conducted by various researchers investigating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart failure, it is worthwhile to compare the progress in relation to these two diseases over recent decades. Such comparison, the purpose of the current review, may help clinicians and scientists to learn about progress made in different, yet related, fields. The current review focuses on the similarities observed in the clinical impact of muscle weakness, the mechanisms of muscle dysfunction, the strategies to improve muscle function, and the effects of exercise training on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic heart failure.
authors.affiliation: Respiratory Division and Respiratory Rehabilitation, Respiratory Muscle Research Unit, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Herestraat 49, B3000 Leuven, Belgium. thierry.troosters@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
authors.forename: Thierry
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Troosters
authors.forename: Rik
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gosselink
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Decramer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005081:Exercise Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D018908:Muscle Weakness / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*