About the Authors

Iara Sayuri Shimizu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Divisao de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coracao (InCor), Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, Coordenacao de Fisioterapia, Centro de Ciencias da Saude, Universidade Estadual do Piaui (UESPI), Teresina, PI, Brazil

Sângia Feucht Freire

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Divisao de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coracao (InCor), Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Mayson Laercio de Araujo Sousa

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Respiratory Therapy, College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Juliana Carvalho Ferreira

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

juliana.ferreira@hc.fm.usp.br

Affiliation Divisao de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coracao (InCor), Hospital das Clinicas HCFMUSP, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.