Assessment of comorbidities and prognosis in patients with COPD diagnosed with the fixed ratio and the lower limit of normal: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: Currently, the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is not uniform, COPD guidelines recommend fixed ratio (FR), whereas ATS and ERS define airflow obstruction based on lower limit of normal (LLN). We aim to determine if there is difference between the two diagnostic...

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Autores principales: Xiong, Huaiyu, Huang, Qiangru, Shuai, Tiankui, Zhu, Lei, Zhang, Chuchu, Zhang, Meng, Wang, Yalei, Liu, Jian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32677946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-020-01450-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7364614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32677946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12931-020-01450-9

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