"To define is to limit": perspectives on asthma-COPD overlap syndrome and personalised medicine

Vanessa M McDonald^{1

2}, Peter G Gibson^{3

2}

Affiliations

¹ Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs and Centre of Excellence in Severe Asthma, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, New Lambton Heights, Australia Vanessa.McDonald@newcastle.edu.au.
² Dept of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia.
³ Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs and Centre of Excellence in Severe Asthma, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, New Lambton Heights, Australia.

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Vanessa M McDonald et al. Eur Respir J. 2017.

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. 2017 May 1;49(5):1700336.

doi: 10.1183/13993003.00336-2017. Print 2017 May.

Vanessa M McDonald^{1

2}, Peter G Gibson^{3

2}

¹ Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs and Centre of Excellence in Severe Asthma, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, New Lambton Heights, Australia Vanessa.McDonald@newcastle.edu.au.
² Dept of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia.
³ Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs and Centre of Excellence in Severe Asthma, Faculty of Health and Medicine, The University of Newcastle, New Lambton Heights, Australia.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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