Associations among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with asthma, pneumonia, and corticosteroid use in the general population.
PURPOSE:To evaluate the association among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with asthma, steroid use, and pneumonia in the general population. METHODS:Using Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database to identify patients with incident pneumonia, we established a COPD with a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229484 |