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Long-Term Oxygen Therapy 24 vs 15 h/day and Mortality in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) ≥ 15 h/day improves survival in hypoxemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). LTOT 24 h/day is often recommended but may pose an unnecessary burden with no clear survival benefit compared with LTOT 15 h/day. The aim was to test the hypothesis that LTOT 24 h/...

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Published in:PLoS One
Main Authors: Ahmadi, Zainab, Sundh, Josefin, Bornefalk-Hermansson, Anna, Ekström, Magnus
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5029935/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27649490
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163293
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