COPD: a pediatric disease.

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is conventionally thought of as a disease of adult smokers, related to airway inflammation and structural airway changes (remodeling). However, there is important epidemiological evidence, from a series of studies with overlapping age groups from birth to late middle age that early life events, including antenatal influences on lung growth, program the child to be at...

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