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Think Gender, Chronic Bronchitis in COPD


 

EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM A MEETING ON ALLERGY AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES

To drive home the point, Dr. Make showed a slide depicting a rail-thin old man with emphysema alongside the rosy-cheeked model Christy Turlington, who revealed at age 31 that she had early-stage emphysema after maintaining a pack-a-day cigarette habit for nearly a decade.

Dr. Make reported having served as an advisory board member, speaker, or trial investigator for AstraZeneca, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Breathe, Forest, GlaxoSmithKline, Ikaria, MedImmune, Merck, Novartis, Pfizer, and Sunovion, as well as the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

Barry J. Make

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