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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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Autores principales: Serapinas, Danielius, Narbekovas, Andrius, Juskevicius, Jonas, Sakalauskas, Raimundas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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