Systemic Inflammatory Response to Smoking in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Evidence of a Gender Effect

BACKGROUND: Tobacco smoking is the main risk factor of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) but not all smokers develop the disease. An abnormal pulmonary and systemic inflammatory response to smoking is thought to play a major pathogenic role in COPD, but this has never been tested directly...

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Autores principales: Faner, Rosa, Gonzalez, Nuria, Cruz, Tamara, Kalko, Susana Graciela, Agustí, Alvar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24830457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097491

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4022517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24830457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0097491

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