Diagnosing COPD in non-smokers: Splitting not lumping

Thorax

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 465-466

  Chilvers, Edwin R ^a   Lomas, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EDITORIAL; EMPHYSEMA; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; LUNG SARCOIDOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 77953727871     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: 14683296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2009.128421     Document Type: Editorial

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