COPD at work: exposures are different than in the past, but still matter

Dick Heederik¹, David M Mannino^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
² Department of Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
³ Medical Affairs, GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Editorial

Dick Heederik et al. Thorax. 2018 Nov.

. 2018 Nov;73(11):997-998.

doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2018-211661. Epub 2018 Jun 19.

Dick Heederik¹, David M Mannino^{2

3}

¹ Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
² Department of Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky, USA.
³ Medical Affairs, GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: copd epidemiology; occupational lung disease.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: DMM is an employee and shareholder of GlaxoSmithKline. DH has no competing interest to declare.

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