COPD in never smokers: Prognosis unveiled

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 502-504

  Leung, Janice M ^a   Sin, Don D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

AIR POLLUTION; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHODILATATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

HUMANS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84883457078     PISSN: 22132600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(13)70157-7     Document Type: Letter

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