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Global assessment of the COPD patient: time to look beyond FEV1?

Respiratory medicine - 1 May 2009

Papaioannou Andriana I, Loukides Stelios, Gourgoulianis Konstantinos I, Kostikas Konstantinos

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COPD is a diverse disease entity with multiple dimensions that uniquely define the patient's performance, morbidity and mortality. FEV(1) is both the traditional metric used to define the progression of COPD as well as the strongest spirometric predictor of mortality in COPD patients. However, besides pulmonary functional abnormalities, COPD is also associated with significant systemic effects. Therefore, the...

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PMID: 19167871
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.01.001

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