Article
[Do we define the COPD correctly?].
Anales de medicina interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984) - 1 Jan 2008
de la Fuente Cid R, González Barcala F J, Pose Reino A, Valdés Cudrado L
Abstract excerpt
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a very common disease which prevalence is increasing and in a nearly future it will represent a socio-sanitary problem. This article s objective is to make a reflexion about the concept COPD, for the physicians contribute to their divulgation to the population and very specially to help to the tobacco desertion. Besides we want to reveal that the term has been...
Topics
- Forecasting
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Prevalence
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Terminology as Topic