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. 2014 Aug 1;190(3):350-2.
doi: 10.1164/rccm.201404-0713LE.

Vastus lateralis fiber shift is an independent predictor of mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Mehul S Patel  1 , Samantha A Natanek, Grigorios Stratakos, Sergi Pascual, Juana Martínez-Llorens, Laura Disano, Gerasimos Terzis, Nicholas S Hopkinson, Joaquim Gea, Ioannis Vogiatzis, François Maltais, Michael I Polkey
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Vastus lateralis fiber shift is an independent predictor of mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Mehul S Patel et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. .
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Figure 1.
(A) The relationship between type II fiber percentage and FEV1 % predicted (dashed lines demonstrate the 95% confidence interval), and (B) survival curves for those with fiber shift (n = 177) and those without fiber shift (n = 215) after adjusting for age and FEV1 % predicted as covariates.
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