Is a previous diagnosis of asthma a reliable criterion for asthma–COPD overlap syndrome in a patient with COPD?

BACKGROUND: Some patients share characteristics of both COPD and asthma. As yet, there is no gold standard to identify patients with the so-called asthma–COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS). OBJECTIVE: To describe the differences between ACOS patients and the remaining COPD patients, and to compare the cli...

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Autores principales: Barrecheguren, Miriam, Román-Rodríguez, Miguel, Miravitlles, Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562730/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26366067
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S87025

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