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Thoracic Kyphosis and Ventilatory Dysfunction in Unselected Older Persons: An Epidemiological Study in Dicomano, Italy

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2004

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Mauro Di Bari, Melisenda Chiarlone, Daniela Matteuzzi, Simona Zacchei, Cláudia Rodrigues Pozzi, Vincenzo Bellia, Francesca Tarantini, Riccardo Pini, Giulio Masotti, Niccolò Marchionni
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Abstract

In unselected older persons, kyphosis is associated with dyspnea and ventilatory dysfunction of a restrictive and an obstructive type. Kyphosis should be included in the differential diagnosis of dyspnea and ventilatory dysfunction in the elderly.

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