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To help physicians enhance their understanding of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS), the Global Initiative for Asthma and Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease have published Diagnosis of Diseases of Chronic Airflow Limitation: Asthma, COPD and Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACOS), which is available at http://www.goldcopd.org/uploads/users/files/AsthmaCOPDOverlap.pdf. This publication describes the features of ACOS, and includes a simple approach to its initial treatment.   

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To help physicians enhance their understanding of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS), the Global Initiative for Asthma and Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease have published Diagnosis of Diseases of Chronic Airflow Limitation: Asthma, COPD and Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACOS), which is available at http://www.goldcopd.org/uploads/users/files/AsthmaCOPDOverlap.pdf. This publication describes the features of ACOS, and includes a simple approach to its initial treatment.   

To help physicians enhance their understanding of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and the asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS), the Global Initiative for Asthma and Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease have published Diagnosis of Diseases of Chronic Airflow Limitation: Asthma, COPD and Asthma-COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACOS), which is available at http://www.goldcopd.org/uploads/users/files/AsthmaCOPDOverlap.pdf. This publication describes the features of ACOS, and includes a simple approach to its initial treatment.   

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