Epidemiology of comorbidities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: clusters, phenotypes and outcomes
COPD is a complex multisystem disease often accompanied by multiple co-morbidities that contribute to symptoms, exacerbations, hospital admissions and mortality. Individual comorbidities can be grouped into clusters of common human pathology: inflammation/immune response (e.g., ischemic heart diseas...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PAGEPress Publications
2012-12-01
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Series: | Italian Journal of Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://www.italjmed.org/index.php/ijm/article/view/32 |