Functional capacity, health impact, and risk of sarcopenia in individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Observational study confirms reduced functional capacity and sarcopenia risk in COPD patients, indicating urgent health needs.

Reduced functional capacity was observed in 81.1% of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
53.3% of patients showed a risk for sarcopenia based on the SARC-F + CC questionnaire results.
Using the COPD Assessment Test, a significant number (93.3%) were found to be clinically impacted by COPD.
The majority of patients (96.7%) had a history of smoking or were former smokers, which correlates with the severity of COPD.

Jacobi et al. (2025) studied this question.

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