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SUBMITTER: Ferrera MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8011854 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ferrera Michael C MC Labaki Wassim W WW Han MeiLan K MK
Annual review of medicine 20210101
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common respiratory disorder with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite its prevalence, COPD is underdiagnosed, and many patients do not receive a diagnosis until the disease is clinically advanced. Recent basic science and clinical research have focused on the early physiologic and pathobiologic changes in COPD with the hopes of improving diagnosis, providing targets for disease-modifying therapy, and identifying patients most likely to be ...[more]