Open AccessPredictors of asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap syndrome in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from a tertiary care center in India
Author(s) -
Irfan Ismail Ayub,
Abdul Majeed Arshad,
Prathipa Sekar,
Natraj Manimaran,
T Dhanasekar,
Chandrasekar Chockalingam
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
lung india
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.457
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-598X
pISSN - 0970-2113
DOI - 10.4103/lungindia.lungindia_198_17
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , asthma , spirometry , wheeze , overlap syndrome , obstructive lung disease
There is dearth of literature on asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap syndrome (ACOS) in India. The aim was to compare clinical characteristics between patients with ACOS and non-ACOS COPD and to identify clinical predictors of ACOS in patients with COPD.