C-reactive protein and N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide as biomarkers in acute exacerbations of COPD leading to hospitalizations

• Yu-wei Roy Chen,

  Affiliation Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, James Hogg Research Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8626-7205

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• Virginia Chen,

  Affiliations Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, James Hogg Research Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Institute for Heart Lung Health, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Zsuzsanna Hollander,

  Affiliations Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, James Hogg Research Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Institute for Heart Lung Health, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Jonathon A. Leipsic,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Cameron J. Hague,

  Affiliation Department of Radiology, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Mari L. DeMarco,

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• J. Mark FitzGerald,

  Affiliations Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The Lung Centre, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Bruce M. McManus,

  Affiliations Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, James Hogg Research Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Institute for Heart Lung Health, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Raymond T. Ng,

  Affiliations PROOF Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Computer Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Don D. Sin

  * E-mail: Don.Sin@hli.ubc.ca

  Affiliations Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, James Hogg Research Centre, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Institute for Heart Lung Health, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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