TY - BOOK AU - Marwa Moawad Shaban AU - Ahmed Abdelmeged Elhadidy , AU - Amany Raafat Mohamed , AU - Hossam Hoseny Masoud , TI - Pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / PY - 2011/// CY - Cairo : PB - Marwa Moawad Shaban , KW - Aerobic training program KW - COPD KW - Short term exercise training program N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis; Issued also as CD N2 - COPD affects various structural and functional domains in the lungs, leading to airflow limitation. It also has significant extrapulmonary effects . Weight loss , nutritional abnormalities and skeletal muscle dysfunction are well - recognized systemic effects . Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR ) programs are beneficial to COPD in order to improve exercise capacity , muscle force , symptoms and health - related quality of life UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -