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Race and Gender Disparities are Evident in COPD Underdiagnoses Across all Severities of Measured Airflow Obstruction

2018; COPD Foundation; Volume: 5; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.15326/jcopdf.5.3.2017.0145

ISSN

2372-952X

Autores

A. James Mamary, Jeffery I. Stewart, Gregory L. Kinney, John E. Hokanson, Kartik Shenoy, Mark T. Dransfield, Marilyn G. Foreman, Gwendolyn B. Vance, Gerard J. Criner,

Tópico(s)

Asthma and respiratory diseases

Resumo

The COPD Genetic Epidemiology (COPDGene®) study provides a rich cross-sectional dataset of patients with substantial tobacco smoke exposure, varied by race, gender, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) diagnosis, and disease. We aimed to determine the influence of race, gender and Global

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