Characteristics and risk factors for inconsistency between the risk of exacerbations and the severity of airflow limitation in COPD based on GOLD 2017: A retrospective, cross-sectional study

• Wei-Chang Huang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Chest Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Technology, Jen-Teh Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Miaoli, Taiwan, Department of Life Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Ming-Feng Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Feng Wu, Jeng-Yuan Hsu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Chest Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Hui-Chen Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Chest Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Jeng-Yuan Hsu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Feng Wu, Jeng-Yuan Hsu

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hsujy@vghtc.gov.tw

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Division of Clinical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Physical Therapy, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• on behalf of The Taiwan Obstructive Lung Disease Consortium

  ¶Membership of the Taiwan Obstructive Lung Disease Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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