Letters to the Editor
28 April 2021
Vol. 91 No. 2 (2021)
Single inhaler triple therapy in COPD – all that glitters is not gold
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The recent studies on combination triple therapy of inhaled corticosteroid, long acting beta2 agonist and long-acting muscarinic antagonist (ICS-LABA-LAMA) in COPD have consistently demonstrated an improvement in exacerbation frequency and/or improvement of lung function...
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“Single Inhaler Triple Therapy in COPD – All That Glitters Is Not Gold”. 2021. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 91 (2). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2021.1617.
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