Frequency of COPD in health care workers who smoke

ABSTRACT Objective: COPD is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Health care providers should counsel their smoking patients with COPD to quit smoking as the first treatment step. However, in countries with high prevalences of smoking, health care workers may also be smoker...

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Main Authors: Ivan Kopitovic, Aleksandar Bokan, Ilija Andrijevic, Miroslav Ilic, Sanja Marinkovic, Dragana Milicic, Marija Vukoja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia
Series:Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-37132017000500351&lng=en&tlng=en