Is 13 g·dL-1 the threshold to correct anaemia in COPD? [5]

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1024-1025

  Singh, A ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROID PRECURSOR CELL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEME SYNTHESIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IRON TRANSPORT; LETTER; LIVER DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID DISEASE; AGED; BLOOD; FEMALE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POLYCYTHEMIA; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYCYTHEMIA; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VETERANS;

EID: 38849100367     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00062607     Document Type: Letter

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