RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Coexistence of Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Prevalence and Risk Factors in Young, Middle-aged and Elderly People from the General Population
Citation: de Marco R, Pesce G, Marcon A, Accordini S, Antonicelli L, et al. (2013) The Coexistence of Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): Prevalence and Risk Factors in Young, Middle-aged and Elderly People from the General Population. PLoS ONE 8(5): e62985. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062985
Editor: Antony Bayer, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Received: January 15, 2013; Accepted: March 26, 2013; Published: May 10, 2013
Copyright: © 2013 de Marco et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Funding: The GEIRD project was funded by: the Cariverona Foundation, the Italian Ministry of Health, Chiesi Farmaceutici, and the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing interests: The authors confirm that Gabriele Nicolini is an employe of the “Chiesi Farmaceutici, Parma, Italy,” one of the commercial funders of this research. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
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