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SUBMITTER: Choi JY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7692717 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi Joon Young JY Rhee Chin Kook CK
Journal of clinical medicine 20201026 11
Chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) is responsible for substantial rates of mortality and economic burden, and is one of the most important public-health concerns. As the disease characteristics include irreversible airway obstruction and progressive lung function decline, there has been a great deal of interest in detection at the early stages of COPD during the "at risk" or undiagnosed preclinical stage to prevent the disease from progressing to the overt stage. Previous studies have used ...[more]