Why doesn't reducing exacerbations decrease COPD mortality?

Lancet Respir Med. 2014 Sep;2(9):681-3. doi: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70163-8.

Author

Guy Brusselle¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Epidemiology and Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, Netherlands. Electronic address: guy.brusselle@ugent.be.

PMID: 25209987
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(14)70163-8

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Disease Progression*
Humans
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / mortality*
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / pathology
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / therapy
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic