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Letter to the Editor
Need for Epidemiological Studies on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Rural Spain
Necesidad de estudios epidemiológicos en enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica en la España rural
Rafael Golpea,b,
Corresponding author
, David Dacal-Rivasa, Nagore Blanco-Cida, Olalla Castro-Añóna
a Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti, Lugo, Spain
b Grupo C039 Biodiscovery HULA-USC, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago de Compostela (IDIS), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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