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Identification of five clusters of comorbidities in a longitudinal Japanese chronic obstructive pulmonary disease cohort.
Respiratory medicine - 1 Aug 2016
Chubachi Shotaro, Sato Minako, Kameyama Naofumi, Tsutsumi Akihiro, Sasaki Mamoru, Tateno Hiroki, Nakamura Hidetoshi, Asano Koichiro, Betsuyaku Tomoko
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) frequently suffer from various comorbidities. Recently, cluster analysis has been proposed to examine the phenotypic heterogeneity in COPD. In order to comprehensively understand the comorbidities of COPD in Japan, we conducted multicenter, longitudinal cohort study, called the Keio COPD Comorbidity Research (K-CCR). In this...
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