Is it asthma or is it COPD: The overlap syndrome

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 641-642

  Bell, Matthew C ^a   Busse, William W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT; TIOTROPIUM BROMIDE;

AGED; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHOSPASM; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COUGHING; DISEASE DURATION; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; WHEEZING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SYNDROME;

ASTHMA; HUMANS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SYNDROME;

EID: 84943249210     PISSN: 22132198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaip.2014.11.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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