The challenge of providing better care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the poor relation of airways obstruction?

Thorax. 2000 Jan;55(1):78-82. doi: 10.1136/thorax.55.1.78.

Authors

P Calverley¹, D Bellamy

Affiliation

¹ Department of Respiratory and Rehabilitation Medicine, University Clinical Department, University Hospital, Aintree, Liverpool L9 7AL, UK.

No abstract available

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
Lung Diseases, Obstructive* / diagnosis
Lung Diseases, Obstructive* / epidemiology
Lung Diseases, Obstructive* / therapy
Male
Prevalence
Risk Factors
Smoking / adverse effects
Smoking / epidemiology
Smoking / physiopathology
Spirometry