Active smoking and COPD phenotype: distribution and impact on prognostic factors

Juan Antonio Riesco, Bernardino Alcázar Navarrete, Juan Antonio Trigueros, Anna Campuzano, Maria Joselín Perez Gutierrez, Jose Luis Lorenzo Ferrer

International Journal of COPD · 2017 · 28 citations · 38 references

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Abstract

Active smoking is more common among exacerbator phenotypes and appears to affect quality of life and dyspnea grade differently, depending on the clinical expression of the disease.

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