Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap: asthmatic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or chronic obstructive asthma?

doi:10.1177/1753465815617082

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Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap: asthmatic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or chronic obstructive asthma?

Therapeutic advances in respiratory disease - 1 Feb 2016

Slats Annelies, Taube Christian

Abstract excerpt

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are different disease entities. They are both clinical diagnoses, with diagnostic tools to discriminate between one another. However, especially in older patients (>55 years) it seems more difficult to differentiate between asthma and COPD....

Topics

Animals
Asthma
Humans
Middle Aged
Phenotype
Prognosis
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
Terminology as Topic

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