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Comorbidities and Risk of Mortality in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Miguel Divo, Claudia Côté, Juan P. de‐Torres, Ciro Casanova, José M. Marı́n, Víctor Pinto-Plata, Javier J. Zulueta, Carlos Cabrera, Jorge Zagaceta, Gary M. Hunninghake,

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine · 2012 · 1.2K citations · 35 references

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Abstract

Comorbidities are frequent in COPD and 12 of them negatively influence survival. A simple disease-specific comorbidities index (COTE) helps assess mortality risk in patients with COPD.

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