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Increased risk of community-acquired pneumonia in COPD patients with comorbid cardiovascular disease

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: COPD patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) have worse clinical outcomes, as compared to those without COPD. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a common comorbidity for COPD patients. Whether COPD with comorbid CVD will increase the risk of CAP is not well investigat...

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Autores principales: Lin, Sheng-Hao, Perng, Diahn-Warng, Chen, Ching-Pei, Chai, Woei-Horng, Yeh, Chin-Shui, Kor, Chew-Teng, Cheng, Shih-Lung, Chen, Jeremy JW, Lin, Ching-Hsiung
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/PMC5147399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980402
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S115137

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