Asthma-Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Overlap Syndrome Associated with Risk of Pulmonary Embolism.

PURPOSE:We conducted a cohort study to clarify this relationship between asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap syndrome (ACOS) and pulmonary embolism (PE). METHODS:From the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan, we identified patients who had a diagnosis of asth...

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Main Authors: Jun-Jun Yeh, Yu-Chiao Wang, Chia-Hung Kao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5017612?pdf=render