Increasing Awareness of COPD: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

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Kenneth R Chapman. Chronic Obstr Pulm Dis. 2018.

. 2018 Oct 9;5(4):228-230.

doi: 10.15326/jcopdf.5.4.2018.0154.

¹ University of Toronto Asthma and Airway Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario.

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Keywords: awareness; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; copd; gender bias; racial bias; underdiagnosis.

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Race and Gender Disparities are Evident in COPD Underdiagnoses Across all Severities of Measured Airflow Obstruction.
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