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Gender differences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associated with manifestations on HRCT.
The clinical respiratory journal - 1 Jan 2017
Gu ShuYi, Deng XiaoJun, Li QingYun, Sun XianWen, Xu JinFu, Li HuiPing
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have been shown to have significant gender differences in terms of susceptibility, severity and response to therapy. We hypothesized that this was due to differences in functional and pathologic changes in the airway, which can be revealed by high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) in addition to pulmonary function test (PFT)....
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