Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease A Systemic Inflammatory Disease /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nakamura, Hiroyuki (Editor), Aoshiba, Kazutetsu (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Respiratory Disease Series: Diagnostic Tools and Disease Managements,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.

This book considers chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) not as a simple inflammation of the lung but as a systemic inflammatory disease. Beginning with epidemiological studies, etiology, diagnosis and treatment, it elaborates further, illustrating some comorbidities and associations with ot...