The major limitation to exercise performance in COPD is inadequate energy supply to the respiratory and locomotor muscles vs. lower limb muscle dysfunction vs. dynamic hyperinflation. Difficulties in determining the primary physiological abnormality that limits exercise performance in COPD.
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Pulmonary and Critical Care Section, Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Brown University School of Medicine.
D017079:Exercise Tolerance / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000503:physiopathology; D010101:Oxygen Consumption / Q000502:physiology; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012132:Respiratory Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology