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Blood cell for the differentiation of airway inflammatory phenotypes in COPD exacerbations.
BMC pulmonary medicine - 24 Feb 2020
Gao Jie, Chen Bida, Wu Sifang, Wu Feng
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BACKGROUND: Measurement of sputum is frequently used to define airway inflammatory subtypes. The venous blood cell is a reliable and simple biomarker, may be used as an alternative procedure to reflect the subtypes. For the aim of verifying the hypothesis that venous blood cell can quantify sputum inflammatory cell to access the airway subtypes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease of acute exacerbations...
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