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Systemic inflammation in COPD in relation to smoking status
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Smoking is the main risk factor for the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that has been recently defined as a systemic pulmonary inflammatory disease. However, the impact of smoking itself on systemic inflammation in COPD patients has not yet been well...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3463080/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22958407 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2049-6958-6-4-214 |