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@AJ_COPD paper in Pulmonology on Baseline dependent minimally important differences for clinical outcomes of pulmonary rehabilitation in people with #COPD pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/318509/AIP/1-s…

Dear colleagues, Are you physical therapist and you provide or have provided care on a regular basis to hospitalized patients with ECOPD? #COPD #PulmonaryRehabilitation Please, complete our Survey and help us to distribute it. Thank you!! redcap.link/FunCOPDEx

Warm welcome to our new #BMCPulmMed Editorial Board Members Nicolas Piton and Felipe V. C. Machado. We are looking forward to working with you. Interested in joining #BMCPulmMed? To find out more visit <bmcpulmmed.biomedcentral.com/join-the-edito…>

An important step in the right direction💪 Congrats to all authors! 👏 Further, happy to see fatigue is recognised as a core outcome in patients with COPD! 🤩 For those searching for a tool to assess fatigue check 👉 thoracic.org/members/assemb…

'just #walk a bit more' = clinically ineffective in patients with #heart failure Hence, #exercise prescription in cardiovascular disease requires much more precision and personalization... An excellent study from the WATCHFUL researchers 👇 ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Would you like to know more about how to combine exercise training and nutritional/pharmacological treatments to enhance exercise capacity and body composition in patients with COPD? mdpi.com/2605058

🗓️SAVE THE DATE 🗓️ Annual FIRRI Symposium 📢Theme: “May the power be with them: empowering patients before, during and after rehabilitation!” 📍 Jessa Ziekenhuis-Hasselt 🗓️ Friday, April 26, 2024 Stay tuned for more details on the program! Happy Holidays!🎅 🎉#FIRRI2024 #rehab

No better way to kick off 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣ than moving into our new research/education building & getting together for the first CRI team discussion in a brand-new meeting room🤩 The best is yet to come! #newbeginnings #motivation #wheresciencemovesyou Faculteit Revalidatiewetenschappen REVAL Research

#EJCN #Fridaysread 🏃What motivates heart transplant patients to exercise and be physical active?🫀 The authors used a #networkanalysis to investigate this perspective. Read more about, what they found ⬇️ doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn… Felipe V. C. Machado Leonie Klompstra

🚨 Is this THE most important screening you aren't doing? 🦴🧐 #NEW BJSM Blog: Sarcopenia and the SARC-F What is the importance of this screening tool, particularly in primary care? And significance of resistance exercise in management? READ MORE ➡️ bit.ly/3U7f41z

Teamwork makes the dream work... 💪 Preparing our upcoming symposium on the 26th of April in Hasselt. See you there?🧐 Stay tuned for more info #FIRRI2024#rehab 🎉

Our state-of-the-art open access review on cardiovascular disease and risk in COPD is now on line… tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Which cut-off values for the SARC-F are optimal for detecting sarcopenia in older patients with cardiovascular disease? Dive into our insights and considerations for effective screening and management. academic.oup.com/eurjcn/article… Dominique Hansen, PhD Carla Prado, PhD, RD, FCAHS European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

Simple but precise equations (without needing gas exchange analysis) to predict the ventilatory thresholds developed/validated in 2868 patients with #cardiovascular/metabolic disease (for personalized #exercise prescription) 👇 academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance… REVAL Research European Society of Cardiology

Although vitamin D insufficiency is more prevalent in COPD patients than controls, vitamin D status is not related to body composition or changes in body weight and composition over time. doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S…

Excited to share that I'll be presenting on body composition in chronic respiratory diseases, a key focus of my PhD, at the upcoming workshop by the Division of Lung Diseases at NIH NHLBI. Don't miss out—registrations are now open! nhlbi.nih.gov/events/2024/ad…

SAFE THE DATE!! 🚨🚨 First webinar of the year: Breathlessness in Internal Diseases! 🫁 📅 12th of February, 2025, 6.00-7.15 PM Keep an eye open for our 2 speakers 👀 Registration: forms.gle/zW1sQAW6dXnJgD…

Over 1 billion people live with #obesity. There is an urgent need for a universal definition & diagnosis. 🆕 A The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission introduces a new model with categories: clinical obesity (an illness) & pre-clinical obesity. This reframing identifies medically meaningful

Theoretical framework illustrating the potential impact of body composition on COPD exacerbation risk; from our latest editorial in Respirology Felipe V. C. Machado doi.org/10.1111/resp.7…