Clinical and computed tomographic predictors of chronic bronchitis in COPD: a cross sectional analysis of the COPDGene study

BACKGROUND: Chronic bronchitis (CB) has been related to poor outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). From a clinical standpoint, we have shown that subjects with CB in a group with moderate to severe airflow obstruction were younger, more likely to be current smokers, male, Caucasi...

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Main Authors: Kim, Victor, Davey, Adam, Comellas, Alejandro P, Han, Meilan K, Washko, George, Martinez, Carlos H, Lynch, David, Lee, Jin Hwa, Silverman, Edwin K, Crapo, James D, Make, Barry J, Criner, Gerard J
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Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4067738/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24766722
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-15-52
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