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Asthma and COPD versus phenotypic traits: Toward precision medicine in chronic airway disease.
Respiratory medicine - 1 Sept 2021
Vedel-Krogh Signe, Nielsen Sune Fallgaard, Nordestgaard Børge Grønne, Lange Peter, Vestbo Jørgen
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BACKGROUND: Asthma and COPD diagnoses are used to classify chronic airway diseases; however, both diseases are related to phenotypic traits like allergy, obesity, cough, sputum production, low-grade inflammation, smoking, elevated blood eosinophil count, comorbidities, and occupational exposures. Whether such traits can replace asthma and COPD diagnoses when assessing risk of exacerbation is unclear. We tested...
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