COPD: Good lung health is the key

Lancet

Volumn 366, Issue 9500, 2005, Pages 1832-1834

  Hurd, Suzanne S ^a   Lenfant, Claude ^b  

^a Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28044432340     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67634-9     Document Type: Note

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