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Prognosis and longitudinal changes of physical activity in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

Thomas BahmerAnne-Marie KirstenBenjamin WaschkiKlaus F RabeHelgo MagnussenDetlef KirstenMarco GrammSimone HummlerEva BrunnemerMichael KreuterHenrik Watz
Published in: BMC pulmonary medicine (2017)
While PA predicts mortality of IPF patients similar to established functional measures, longitudinal decline of PA seems to be disproportionally large. Our data suggest that the clinical impact of disease progression could be underestimated by established functional measures.
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