Chronic Bronchitis Is Associated With Worse Symptoms and Quality of Life Than Chronic Airflow Obstruction

BACKGROUND: COPD includes the chronic bronchitis (CB) and emphysema phenotypes. Although it is generally assumed that emphysema or chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) is associated with worse quality of life (QOL) than is CB, this assumption has not been tested. METHODS: The current study’s analyses f...

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Vydáno v:Chest
Hlavní autoři: Meek, Paula M., Petersen, Hans, Washko, George R., Diaz, Alejandro A., Kim, Victor, Sood, Akshay, Tesfaigzi, Yohannes
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: American College of Chest Physicians 2015
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4524327/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25741880
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1378/chest.14-2240
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