In bronchiectasis, poor physical capacity correlates with poor quality of life.

Those BE patients with poor QoL had significantly reduced values in every symptom domain that we more closely analysed, but mostly in the physical, role, health, and social domains ( Table 2 ). The BE patients with a poor QoL showed a trend toward lower lung function (FEV1 84.3 ± 31.4%) than did those with preserved QoL (FEV1 88.9 ± 21.4%, p ns) ( Table 1 ).

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