
Altitude and COPD prevalence: analysis of the PREPOCOL-PLATINO-BOLD-EPI-SCAN study
2017; BioMed Central; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1186/s12931-017-0643-5
ISSN1465-993X
AutoresAndreas Horner, Joan B. Soriano, Milo A. Puhan, Michael Studnicka, Bernhard Kaiser, Lowie E.G.W. Vanfleteren, Louisa Gnatiuc, Peter Burney, Marc Miravitlles, Francisco García‐Río, Julio Ancochea, Ana Maria Baptista Menezes, Rogelio Pérez‐Padilla, María Montes de, Carlos A. Torres‐Duque, Andrés Caballero, Mauricio González-García, Sonia Buist, Maria Flamm, Bernd Lamprecht,
Tópico(s)Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
ResumoCOPD prevalence is highly variable and geographical altitude has been linked to it, yet with conflicting results. We aimed to investigate this association, considering well known risk factors.
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