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Investigating fibrinogen levels as a biomarker for immune inflammation severity in COPD patients across GOLD stages

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Objective: To assess the association between fibrinogen levels and immune inflammation severity in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at different stages of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease classification ...
Hamidullah, Sajjad Ali, Ashraf, Imranullah, Ishtiaq Ahmad   +4 more
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Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap: asthmatic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or chronic obstructive asthma?

Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 2016
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are different disease entities. They are both clinical diagnoses, with diagnostic tools to discriminate between one another. However, especially in older patients (>55 years) it seems more difficult
Annelies Slats, Christian Taube
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease as a Cardiovascular Diseases Risk Factor in Erbil

Erbil Journal of Nursing and Midwifery, 2019
Background and objectives: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been reported as the most common cause of morbidity and mortality all over the world.
Goran Abubaker Osman, Halmat Authman Rasheed, Yousif Mohammed Younis, Newroz Khazi Aziz, Hemin Khlid Saber   +4 more
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Association of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obstructive sleep apnea consequences

International Journal of COPD, 2009
Carlos Zamarrón1, Vanesa García Paz1, Emilio Morete1, Felix del Campo Matías21Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago, Santiago, Spain; 2Servicio de Neumologia, Hospital ...
Carlos Zamarrón, Vanesa García Paz, Emilio Morete, Felix del Campo Matías   +3 more
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Association of Surfactant-Associated Protein D Gene Polymorphisms with the Risk of COPD: a Meta-Analysis

Clinics, 2019
The relationship between surfactant-associated protein D polymorphisms and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk remains controversial. This article is the first to systematically evaluate this relationship.
Yi Liao, ChengLiang Huang, JianRong Wang, XianMing Fan   +3 more
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FORECASTING CORONARY EVENTS BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMICS OF MORPHOFUNCTIONAL PARAMETERS OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE IN THE NORTH

Архивъ внутренней медицины, 2018
In modern society, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has been isolated relatively recently in an independent nosological unit and, along with cardiovascular diseases, constitutes the leading group of  socially significant chronic diseases, being one ...
D. A. Dolgopolova, M. A. Popova, N. N. Terentyeva   +2 more
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Ventricular rhythm disturbances during computer spirography in patients with stable ischemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: clinical and functional predictors of occurrence

Zaporožskij Medicinskij Žurnal, 2019
The purpose of the study is to determine the predictors of cardiac rhythm disturbance during spirography in patients with a combination of stable coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Materials and methods.
Yu. M. Mostovoi, L. V. Rasputina, D. V. Didenko, A. O. Dovhan   +3 more
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Sputum colour charts to guide antibiotic self-treatment of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the Colour-COPD RCT

Health Technology Assessment
Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations (acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) are characterised by increased sputum volume, purulence and breathlessness.
Eleni Gkini, Rachel L Adams, Daniella Spittle, Paul Ellis, Katherine Allsopp, Sanya Saleem, Matthew McKenna, Nick le Mesurier, Nicola Gale, Sarah Tearne, Peymane Adab, Rachel E Jordan, Nawar Diar Bakerly, Alice M Turner   +13 more
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Treatment of mild chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

International Journal of COPD, 2008
Alex Chee, Don D SinDepartment of Medicine, Division of Respirology, The University of British Columbia and Providence Heart and Lung Institute and The James Hogg iCAPTURE Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research, St Paul’s Hospital ...
Alex Chee, Don D Sin
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Correlation between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in a general population in Iran

Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2011
Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate epidemiological relationship between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and sleep apnea syndrome in a sample of Persian population. Methods: As a part of a population-based cross-sectional study, 3900
Babak Amra, Mohammad Golshan, Ingo Fietze, Thomas Penzel, Tobias Welte   +4 more
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