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Pharmacological treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: from evidence-based medicine to phenotyping.
Drug discovery today - 1 Dec 2014
Montuschi Paolo, Malerba Mario, Santini Giuseppe, Miravitlles Marc
Abstract excerpt
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by large phenotype variability, reflected by a highly variable response to pharmacological treatment. Nevertheless, current guidelines suggest that patients with COPD of similar severity should be treated in the same way. The phenotype-based pharmacotherapeutic approach proposes bronchodilators alone in the nonfrequent exacerbator phenotype and a...
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