Association of current smoking with airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asymptomatic smokers

BACKGROUND: Inflammation in the airways and lung parenchyma underlies fixed airway obstruction in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The exact role of smoking as promoting factor of inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is not clear, partly because studies often do not distinguis...

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Autors principals: Willemse, Brigitte WM, ten Hacken, Nick HT, Rutgers, Bea, Postma, Dirkje S, Timens, Wim
Format: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicat: BioMed Central 2005
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Accés en línia:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1140754/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15850494
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-6-38
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