Are inhaled corticosteroids increasing the "load" for some patients with COPD?

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¹ Dept of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK T.wilkinson@soton.ac.uk.

Editorial

Tom M A Wilkinson. Eur Respir J. 2017.

. 2017 Oct 5;50(4):1701848.

doi: 10.1183/13993003.01848-2017. Print 2017 Oct.

¹ Dept of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Southampton Faculty of Medicine, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK T.wilkinson@soton.ac.uk.

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