It's time for an aetiology-based definition of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Respirology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 317-319

  Miravitlles, Marc ^a   Morera, Josep ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; EMPHYSEMA; EOSINOPHILIA; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; LUNG DISEASE; MORTALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SURVIVAL; TUBERCULOSIS; WHEEZING; FEMALE; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; TERMINOLOGY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 34250886158     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2007.01082.x     Document Type: Editorial

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