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Blood eosinophils to guide inhaled maintenance therapy in a primary care COPD population

Blood eosinophils are a potentially useful biomarker for guiding inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment decisions in COPD. We investigated whether existing blood eosinophil counts predict benefit from initiation of ICS compared to bronchodilator therapy. We used routinely collected data from UK prim...

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Autores principales: Ashdown, Helen F., Smith, Margaret, McFadden, Emily, Pavord, Ian D., Butler, Chris C., Bafadhel, Mona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Respiratory Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8819252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35141324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00606-2021