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Airway inflammation contributes to health status in COPD: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by irreversible airflow limitation and airway inflammation, accompanied by decreased health status. It is still unknown which factors are responsible for the impaired health status in COPD. We postulated that airway inflammati...

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Autores principales: Snoeck-Stroband, Jiska B, Postma, Dirkje S, Lapperre, Thérèse S, Gosman, Margot ME, Thiadens, Henk A, Kauffman, Henk F, Sont, Jacob K, Jansen, Désirée F, Sterk, Peter J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1697818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17137518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-7-140