Identification and prospective validation of clinically relevant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) subtypes
Thorax2010Vol. 66(5), pp. 430–437
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Judith García‐Aymerich, Félix Gómez, Marta Benet, Eva Farrero, Xavier Basagaña, Ángel Gayete, Carles Paré, Xavier Freixa, Jaume Ferrer, Antoni Ferrer, Josep Roca, Juan B. Gáldiz, Jaume Sauleda, Eduard Monsó, Joaquim Gea, Joan Albert Barberà, Àlvar Agustí, Josep M. Antó, on behalf of the PAC-COPD Study Group
Abstract
In patients with COPD recruited at their first hospitalisation, three different COPD subtypes were identified and prospectively validated: 'severe respiratory COPD', 'moderate respiratory COPD', and 'systemic COPD'.
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