Alvise Casara, Graziella Turato, Marta Marin-Oto, Umberto Semenzato, Davide Biondini, Mariaenrica Tinè, Nicol Bernardinello, Elisabetta Cocconcelli, Pablo Cubero, Elisabetta Balestro, Paolo Spagnolo, Josè M Marin, Manuel G Cosio, Marina Saetta, Erica Bazzan
BACKGROUND: Chronic bronchitis (CB) importantly affects outcomes in smokers with COPD, but the effects on smokers without COPD are less well known and less emphasized. The aim of our study was to investigate the possible effects of CB on clinical outcomes in smokers without COPD (noCOPD) and compare them with the effects in smokers with COPD (COPD). METHODS: For that purpose, we studied 511 smokers, 302 with and 209 without COPD, followed for 10 years in an academic COPD ambulatory setting...
August 20, 2022: Journal of Clinical Medicine