title: Why doesn't reducing exacerbations decrease COPD mortality?
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium; Department of Epidemiology and Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, 3000 CA Rotterdam, Netherlands. Electronic address: guy.brusselle@ugent.be.
authors.forename: Guy
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Brusselle
mesh_terms: D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic