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Metabolic syndrome in hospitalized patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
2015-05-01
Abstract excerpt
The metabolic syndrome (MS) affects 21-53% of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with a higher prevalence in the early stages of COPD, with results being highly variable between studies. MS may also correlate with disease characteristics. The aim of the study is to examine the prevalence of MS and its correlation with comorbidities and COPD characteristics in patients with COPD admitted for...
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- Literature Corpus work
- faba1f9c-a956-5e54-a359-ec16519d0c32
- DOI
- 10.7287/peerj.preprints.1022v1
