Patients with mild-to-moderate asthma may develop clinically significant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Respirology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 529-536

  Tsuda, Yasunari ^a   Noguchi, Toshiyuki ^a   Mochizuki, Hideaki ^a   Makino, Fumihiko ^a   Nanjo, Yuta ^a   Sawabe, Motoji ^b   Takahashi, Hideki ^a,b  

^a Division of Respiratory Medicine   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asthma; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; High resolution computed tomography; Non smoker; Small airway

Indexed keywords

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOPSY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASTHMA; AUTOPSY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 65649087828     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2009.01533.x     Document Type: Article

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