title: This edition of the Clinics in Chest Medicine comprehensively reviews the effects of obesity on pulmonary disease and critical care medicine. Preface.
authors.affiliation: Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
authors.forename: Charles S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Dela Cruz
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Beuther
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Matthay
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000628:therapy