GOLD 2017 on the way to a phenotypic approach? Analysis from the Phenotypes of COPD in Central and Eastern Europe (POPE) Cohort

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Medicine Zagreb, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.
• ² Department of Pneumology, University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Prague, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic.
• ³ Pneumology Department, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, CIBER de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁴ Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for COPD and Respiratory Epidemiology, Otto-Wagner-Spital, Wien, Austria.
• ⁵ Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade, Serbia.
• ⁶ Department of Pneumology, School of Medicine in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
• ⁷ Department of Pulmonology, University of Szeged, Deszk, Hungary.
• ⁸ Laboratory of Pulmonology, Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry named after A.I. Evdokimov, Moscow, Russian Federation.
• ⁹ Clinic of Pulmonary Diseases, Military Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
• ¹¹ Pulmonary Department, Topolsica Hospital, Topolsica, Slovenia.
• ¹² Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
• ¹³ Department of Respiratory Medicine and Tuberculosis, Faculty of Medicine, P.J. Safarik University, Kosice, Slovakia ruzena.tkacova@upjs.sk.