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Helium-oxygen mixture helps COPD patients exercise harder
New research published in the international journal Chest by University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) resecher Neil Eves, PhD, finds that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who breathed a mix of 60% helium and 40% oxygen during a rehabilitation program were able to exercise longer and harder than those who breathed normal air.
This is significant because research has shown that patients who perform more exercise and get greater improvements in fitness also get better improvements in their symptoms and health-related quality of life.
