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Responses to steroids and bronchodilators in COPD in the ISOLDE trial: the fat lady sings on
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- Published on: 29 April 2016
- Published on: 29 April 2016Long-term inhaled steroid response testing should be done in heterogeneous COPD-populationShow More
Dear Editor
These clinically important papers [1,2] by the Isolde researchers provide excellent data questioning the rationale behind inclusion of patients in the large COPD-studies that have been reported in past few years. Selection of patients on the basis of absence of reversibility means ruling out the easiest measurable variable that may correlate with steroid response. When assessing effects of two weeks pred...
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