Phenotypic comparison between smoking and non-smoking chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Phenotypic comparison between smoking and non-smoking chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Abstract Background Although COPD among non-smokers (NS-COPD) is common, little is known about this phenotype. We compared NS-COPD subjects with smoking COPD (S-COPD) patients in a rural Indian population using a variety of clinical, physiological, radiological, sputum cellular and blood biomarkers....

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Main Authors: Sundeep S. Salvi, Bill B. Brashier, Jyoti Londhe, Kanchan Pyasi, Vandana Vincent, Shilpa S. Kajale, Sajid Tambe, Kuldeep Mandani, Arjun Nair, Sze Mun Mak, Sapna Madas, Sanjay Juvekar, Louise E. Donnelly, Peter J. Barnes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:Respiratory Research
Subjects:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
biomass smoke
non-smoking COPD
small airway disease
household air pollution
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-020-1310-9

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-020-1310-9

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