ArticleAnnals of the American Thoracic Society2018
The "Obesity Paradox" in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Can It Be Resolved?
Article in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association between body mass index and prognosis in interstitial lung disease: systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of body mass index on mortality in COPD: an updated dose-response meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2024Pooled it
- Association of body mass index with mortality in COPD through exacerbations and cardiovascular events.BMJ open respiratory research · 2026Observational
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- Association Between Phase Angle, Muscle Mass Distribution, and Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among community-dwelling adults aged 40 years and older in regional China.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2026Article
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- Nationwide Trends and Outcomes of Alcohol Use Disorders in COPD Hospitalizations in Spain, 2016-2023.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Characteristics Associated with Lung Function Trajectories: An Analysis of the SPIROMICS Cohort.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2025Article
- Association of weight-adjusted waist index with preserved ratio impaired spirometry and all-cause mortality.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Physical Activity, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and the Obesity Paradox with Consideration for Racial and/or Ethnic Differences: A Broad Review and Call to Action.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
- Malnutrition and Obesity in Patients with COPD Exacerbation, Insights from the National Inpatient Sample.The open respiratory medicine journal · 2024Article
- Influence of Diabetes Mellitus and Nutritional Parameters on Clinical and Functional Aspects and Quality of Life in Patients Hospitalized Due to Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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- The Relationship of Cholesterol Responses to Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Lung Inflammation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- Association between waist circumference change and incident chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among Chinese adults: a 10-year cohort study.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- An American Physiological Society cross-journal Call for Papers on "The Physiology of Obesity".American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2022Article
- Mortality associated with metabolic syndrome in people with COPD managed in primary care.ERJ open research · 2022Article
- High-Density Lipoproteins: A Role in Inflammation in COPD.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Role of Short-Chain Fatty Acids Produced by Gut Microbiota in Innate Lung Immunity and Pathogenesis of the Heterogeneous Course of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
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