Clinical utility of blood neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio in Japanese COPD patients

BACKGROUND: Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is a biomarker of inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. But, a meaningful threshold and the longitudinal changes are unknown. We aimed to investigate the association between NLR and the clinical characteristics of COPD...

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Autores principales: Sakurai, Kaori, Chubachi, Shotaro, Irie, Hidehiro, Tsutsumi, Akihiro, Kameyama, Naofumi, Kamatani, Takashi, Koh, Hidefumi, Terashima, Takeshi, Nakamura, Hidetoshi, Asano, Koichiro, Betsuyaku, Tomoko
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5932787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29720140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-018-0639-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5932787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29720140
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-018-0639-z

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