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Editorial
. 2024 Sep;29(9):756-758.
doi: 10.1111/resp.14731. Epub 2024 May 7.

Asthma-COPD overlap and asthma progressing to COPD: Are we using the right diagnostic approaches and pathways?

Elvis Malcolm Irusen  1 , Danica Meiring  2 , Coenraad Frederik Nicolaas Koegelenberg  1
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Editorial

Asthma-COPD overlap and asthma progressing to COPD: Are we using the right diagnostic approaches and pathways?

Elvis Malcolm Irusen et al. Respirology. 2024 Sep.
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Keywords: asthma‐COPD overlap; persistent airflow limitation.

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