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Effect of allergic phenotype on treatment response to inhaled bronchodilators with or without inhaled corticosteroids in patients with COPD.
International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - 1 Jan 2017
Cheng Shih-Lung, Wang Hsu Hui, Lin Ching-Hsiung
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BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous disorder encompassing different phenotypes with different responses to treatment. The present 1-year, two-center hospital-based study investigated whether the plasma immunoglobulin E (IgE) level and/or eosinophil cell count could be used as biomarkers to stratify patients with COPD according to predicted responses to inhaled...
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