The evidence for the use of oral mucolytic agents in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
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Mucolytic agents for chronic bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
BACKGROUND Individuals with chronic bronchitis or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may suffer recurrent exacerbations with an increase in volume and/or purulence of sputum and any therapy that reduced the number of exacerbations would be useful. There is a marked difference between countries in terms of the prescribing of mucolytics depending on whether or not they are perceived to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Medical Bulletin
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0007-1420,1471-8391
DOI: 10.1093/bmb/ldp050