Vascular inflammation and aortic stiffness: potential mechanisms of increased vascular risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a complex inflammatory condition in which an important extra-pulmonary manifestation is cardiovascular disease. We hypothesized that COPD patients would have inc...

https://respiratory-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12931-018-0792-...

Source: Respiratory Research - May 24, 2018 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Marie Fisk, Joseph Cheriyan, Divya Mohan, Carmel M. McEniery, Julia Forman, John R. Cockcroft, James H. F. Rudd, Ruth Tal-Singer, Nicholas S. Hopkinson, Michael I. Polkey and Ian B. Wilkinson Tags: Research Source Type: research

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