Clinical, laboratory, and functional characteristics of asthma-COPD overlap in patients with a primary diagnosis of COPD.
Ana Paula Adriano QueirozFernanda Rodrigues FonsecaAlexânia de RêRosemeri Maurici da SilvaPublished in: Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia (2020)
In our sample, patients with ACO were more likely to report previous episodes of asthma and had worse lung function than did those with COPD only. The ATS Roundtable criteria appear to be the most judicious, although concordance was greatest between the PLATINO and the Spanish criteria.