TY - CHAP AU - Esmaeil Alibakhshi AU - Raffaele Fiorillo AU - Luis Lores Obradors AU - Ana María Sánchez-Laforga AU - Amparo Villar Cánovas AU - Mostafa Ghanei AU - Ali Qazvini ED - Ketevan Nemsadze Y1 - 2020-04-20 PY - 2020 T1 - The Main Clinical Indicators of Sarcopenia in Patients with Chronic Respiratory Disease: Skeletal Muscle Dysfunction Approach N2 - Respiratory Physiology is an open-access manual for students, postgraduates in medicine and healthcare, and clinicians in different medical specialties. Dysfunction of any component of the human respiratory system can lead to respiratory distress or failure. A comprehensive understanding of respiratory physiology can aid the practitioner in diagnosing the cause of respiratory symptoms. This book addresses aspects of respiratory physiology during exercise as well as environmental factors that affect the respiratory system. Chapters cover the most important features of human respiration, including its physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms and impacts on health and disease. BT - Respiratory Physiology SP - Ch. 3 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91333 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.91333 SN - 978-1-83962-326-4 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -