title: [Pulmonary rehabilitation: exercise training, nutritional intervention and patient education].
abstract: The optimal care of patients with COPD generally requires combining pharmacologic and non pharmacologic therapies and the latter provides as pulmonary rehabilitation. Pulmonary rehabilitation, which includes exercise training, patient education, psychosocial support, nutritional intervention, and outcome assessments. Pulmonary rehabilitation has demonstrated effectiveness over multiple outcome areas such as dyspnea, exercise capacity, and health-related quality of life compared with other interventions such as pharmacologic therapy. However, it is not enough access for pulmonary rehabilitation, so effort should be made for easy access of this effective medical care.
authors.affiliation: Division of Respiratory Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University Yachiyo Medical Center.
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Katsura
mesh_terms: D005081:Exercise Therapy; D006801:Humans; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000534:rehabilitation*