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This article summarizes recent literature related to community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), which continues to represent one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality throughout the world, especially in the elderly. The impact is even more striking if we take healthcare costs into account. Patients with CAP usually have other comorbidities which not only increase mortality in this group but...
Although obesity is a common co-morbid condition in COPD, relatively little is known how it may affect functional exercise capacity. Accordingly, we compared physiologic responses during a 6 min walk test in 10 obese and 10 non-obese COPD patients matched by gender, age, and spirometric severity category. Patients first exercised on a treadmill to determine maximal exercise responses, then following...
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