Impact of baseline symptoms and health status on COPD exacerbations in the FLAME study

Abstract Background COPD is a heterogeneous disease and patients may respond differently to therapies depending on baseline symptom burden. Methods This post-hoc analysis from the 52-week FLAME study investigated the impact of baseline symptom burden in terms of health status, dyspnoea, bronchitis s...

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Main Authors: Alexander J. Mackay, Konstantinos Kostikas, Nicolas Roche, Stefan-Marian Frent, Petter Olsson, Pascal Pfister, Pritam Gupta, Francesco Patalano, Donald Banerji, Jadwiga A. Wedzicha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-04-01
Series:Respiratory Research
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12931-020-01354-8