American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Long-Term Outcomes in Mild/Moderate Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey
Roberto de Marco 1, Simone Accordini 1, Josep M. Antò 2,3,4,5, Thorarinn Gislason 6, Joachim Heinrich 7, Christer Janson 8, Deborah Jarvis 9, Nino Künzli 2,3,4,10, Bénédicte Leynaert 11, Alessandro Marcon 1, Jordi Sunyer 2,3,4,5, Show All...
1Unit of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Department of Medicine and Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; 2Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL); 3Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM); 4CIBER in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP); 5Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain; 6Department of Respiratory Medicine and Sleep, Landspitali University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; 7Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; 8Department of Medical Sciences, Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; 9Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom; 10Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain; 11Unit 700 Epidemiology, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris, France; 12Bergen Respiratory Research Group, Institute of Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; 13Institute for Inhalation Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany; and 14Institute of Genetic Medicine, EURAC Research, Bolzano, Italy
Received: April 09, 2009
Accepted: August 20, 2009