Clinical, immunological and microbiological phenotypes of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in ethnic Chinese populations in South-East Asia

• Main Author: Tiew, Pei Yee
• Other Authors: Sanjay Haresh Chotirmall
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Science::Medicine
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145518
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is of increasing prevalence across Asia. COPD in Asian populations remains under-researched, and most clinical trials of COPD therapeutics exclude Asians. Therefore, a major knowledge gap exists on whether specific clinical, immunological and microbiologi...