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Is a previous diagnosis of asthma a reliable criterion for asthma-COPD overlap syndrome in a patient with COPD?
International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - 1 Jan 2015
Barrecheguren Miriam, Román-Rodríguez Miguel, Miravitlles Marc
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BACKGROUND: Some patients share characteristics of both COPD and asthma. As yet, there is no gold standard to identify patients with the so-called asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS). OBJECTIVE: To describe the differences between ACOS patients and the remaining COPD patients, and to compare the clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with ACOS by two different criteria: previous diagnosis of asthma before...
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