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Systemic Markers of Adaptive and Innate Immunity Are Associated with COPD Severity and Spirometric Disease Progression
2017-09-26
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> The progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with marked alterations in circulating immune cell populations, but no studies have characterized alterations in these cell types across the full spectrum of lung function impairment in current and former smokers. In 6,299 subjects from the COPDGene and ECLIPSE studies, we related Coulter blood counts and proportions t...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b4e0ade1-4951-5fb6-a2b4-4aa6a446f81a
- DOI
- 10.1101/193920
