Article
Heterogeneity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: from phenotype to genotype.
Frontiers of medicine - 1 Dec 2013
Chen Xu, Xu Xiaomao, Xiao Fei
Abstract excerpt
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality throughout the world and is mainly characterized by persistent airflow limitation. Given that multiple systems other than the lung can be impaired in COPD patients, the traditional FEV1/FVC ratio...
Topics
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Testing
- Genotype
- Humans
- Phenotype
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Prognosis
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
