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Blood eosinophil count, a marker of inhaled corticosteroid effectiveness in preventing COPD exacerbations in post-hoc RCT and observational studies: systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Blood eosinophil count has been proposed as a predictor of response to inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) in the prevention of acute exacerbations of COPD. An optimal threshold of blood eosinophil count for prescribing ICS has not been agreed. Doubt has been cast on the role by observational s...

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Autores principales: Harries, Timothy H., Rowland, Victoria, Corrigan, Christopher J., Marshall, Iain J., McDonnell, Lucy, Prasad, Vibhore, Schofield, Peter, Armstrong, David, White, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6942335/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31900184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-019-1268-7