Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Growing but Neglected Global Epidemic
Open Access
- 15 May 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 4 (5), e112
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0040112
Abstract
Peter Barnes argues that COPD is a major and increasing global health epidemic that has received insufficient attention from the health-care profession, governments, and the pharmaceutical industry.Keywords
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