Airway inflammation in Japanese COPD patients compared with smoking and nonsmoking controls

PURPOSE: To assess the importance of inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by measuring airway and systemic inflammatory biomarkers in Japanese patients with the disease and relevant control groups. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This was the first study of its type in Japanese COPD pa...

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Autores principales: Ishikawa, Nobuhisa, Hattori, Noboru, Kohno, Nobuoki, Kobayashi, Akihiro, Hayamizu, Tomoyuki, Johnson, Malcolm
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25670894
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S74557

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315175/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25670894
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S74557

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