Obesity and Lung Disease A Guide to Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dixon, Anne E. (Editor), Clerisme-Beaty, Emmanuelle M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2013.
• Series: Respiratory Medicine ; 19
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Endocrinology.; Primary care (Medicine).; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Internal Medicine.; Primary Care Medicine.

As a result of the rapidly growing rate of obesity worldwide, clinicians are struggling to provide the best strategies for treating obese patients with concomitant pulmonary conditions. Obesity does not simply change the epidemiology of pulmonary disease; obesity has a profound impact on the pathoph...