... is recognized to have significant systemic consequences and to be associated with a range of common co-morbidities. The distinction between the two is difficult and depends on whether the systemic features are considered to represent an ‘overspill’ of inflammatory mediators from the lung, or rather if COPD...

...Lasse Solskov; Bo Løfgren; Rasmus Pold; Steen B. Kristiansen; Torsten T. Nielsen; David H. Overstreet; Ole Schmitz; Hans Erik Bøtker; Sten Lund; Gregers Wegener Major depression is associated with medical co-morbidity, such as ischaemic heart disease and diabetes, but the underlying...