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Circulating fibrocytes can identify people with a poor prognosis in pulmonary fibrosis

2020-06-07 respiratory medicine Title + abstract only
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ObjectiveCirculating fibrocytes are elevated in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, but the relationship between fibrocyte level with lung function decline and outcomes is lacking replication in prospective clinical study. We aim to validate the utility of circulating fibrocyte levels as a prognostic biomarker in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. MethodsWe tested associations between circulating fibrocyte levels, mortality, disease progression and longitudinal lung function in a well-defined prospectiv...

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