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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Phenotypes: Implications for Care.
Mayo Clinic proceedings - 1 Jul 2017
Mirza Shireen, Benzo Roberto
Abstract excerpt
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) phenotyping can help define clusters of patients with common characteristics that relate to clinically meaningful outcomes. In this review, we describe 7 clinically meaningful COPD phenotypes that can be identified by primary care physicians as well as specialists and that have specific management and prognostic implications: (1) asthma-COPD overlap phenotype, (2)...
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