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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Main Authors: Jun-Jun Yeh, Cheng-Li Lin, Chia-Hung Kao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229484