ULTRASOUND EVALUATION OF THE QUADRICEPS MUSCLE CONTRACTILE INDEX IN PATIENTS WITH STABLE CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE: RELATIONSHIPS WITH CLINICAL SYMPTOMS, DISEASE SEVERITY AND DIAPHRAGM CONTRACTILITY

Anne-Catherine Maynard-Paquette,1 Claude Poirier,2 Carl Chartrand-Lefebvre,3,4 Bruno-Pierre Dubé2,5 1Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada; 2Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), Department of Medicine, Respiratory Medicine Division, Montreal,

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Introduction Osteoporosis (OP) is a prevalent skeletal disease with high mortality and morbidity, followed by acute and chronic back pain, severe spinal deformity and dysfunction.First-line drugs for OP work through antiresorptive or anabolic mechanisms.Although with good efficacy, these drugs still have certain limitations in clinical application