• Eur. Respir. J. · Sep 2015

    Multicenter Study Comparative Study

    Asthma, COPD and overlap syndrome: a longitudinal study in young European adults.

    • Roberto de Marco, Alessandro Marcon, Andrea Rossi, Josep M Antó, Isa Cerveri, Thorarinn Gislason, Joachim Heinrich, Christer Janson, Deborah Jarvis, Nino Kuenzli, Bénédicte Leynaert, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Cecilie Svanes, Matthias Wjst, and Peter Burney.
    • Unit of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy roberto.demarco@univr.it.
    • Eur. Respir. J. 2015 Sep 1; 46 (3): 671-9.

    AbstractWe compared risk factors and clinical characteristics, 9-year lung function change and hospitalisation risk across subjects with the asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap syndrome (ACOS), asthma or COPD alone, or none of these diseases.Participants in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey in 1991-1993 (aged 20-44 years) and 1999-2001 were included. Chronic airflow obstruction was defined as pre-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1)/forced vital capacityCopyright ©ERS 2015.

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