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New treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
1National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK. p.j.barnes@ic.ac.uk
Current Opinion in Pharmacology
|November 20, 2001
Abstract:
No currently available drugs prevent the progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Several new drugs are now in development that may affect the underlying inflammatory and destructive processes in this increasingly common disease.