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. 2022 Jan:191:106120.
doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106120. Epub 2020 Aug 14.

Disproportionate decline in admissions for exacerbated COPD during the COVID-19 pandemic

Thomas M Berghaus  1 , Philipp Karschnia  2 , Sabine Haberl  3 , Martin Schwaiblmair  4
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Disproportionate decline in admissions for exacerbated COPD during the COVID-19 pandemic

Thomas M Berghaus et al. Respir Med. 2022 Jan.
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Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Exacerbated COPD; Hospital admissions.

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Fig. 1
Hospitalized patients between 2018 and 2020. A: Absolute numbers of hospitalized patients with exacerbated COPD (blue), myocardial infarction (red), and stroke (green) between 01. December 2017 and 01. May 2020. Dates of first confirmed COVID-19 cases in Europe and Germany are displayed. Curves were smoothed for display purposes.
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