Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 2 , Pages 246-252, February 2010

Inhaled corticosteroids and risk of pneumonia in newly diagnosed COPD

  • Min J. Joo

      Affiliations

    • Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
    • Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care (CMC3), Hines VA Hospital, Hines, IL, USA
    • CMC3, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
    • Health Promotion Research, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. 840 S. Wood St. M/C 719, Chicago, IL 60612-7323, USA. Tel.: +1 312 996 8039; fax: +1 312 996 4665.
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  • David H. Au

      Affiliations

    • Health Services Research and Development, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
    • Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • ,
  • Marian L. Fitzgibbon

      Affiliations

    • CMC3, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
    • Health Promotion Research, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
  • ,
  • Todd A. Lee

      Affiliations

    • Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care (CMC3), Hines VA Hospital, Hines, IL, USA
    • Department of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Received 29 June 2009; accepted 1 October 2009. published online 02 November 2009.

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PII: S0954-6111(09)00323-0

doi:10.1016/j.rmed.2009.10.002

Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 2 , Pages 246-252, February 2010