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Current asthma contributes as much as smoking to chronic bronchitis in middle age: a prospective population-based study

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Personal smoking is widely regarded to be the primary cause of chronic bronchitis (CB) in adults, but with limited knowledge of contributions by other factors, including current asthma. We aimed to estimate the independent and relative contributions to adult CB from other p...

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Autores principales: Dharmage, Shyamali C, Perret, Jennifer L, Burgess, John A, Lodge, Caroline J, Johns, David P, Thomas, Paul S, Giles, Graham G, Hopper, John L, Abramson, Michael J, Walters, E Haydn, Matheson, Melanie C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4993278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27574415
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S103908