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Once-daily indacaterol versus tiotropium for patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (INVIGORATE): a randomised, blinded, parallel-group study

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Indacaterol and tiotropium provided clinically relevant improvements in lung function with comparable safety profiles and the present data offer evidence consistent with current guidelines.
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This article is published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 230 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tiotropium bromide & Indacaterol.

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

TL;DR: Without a global political and economic effort to reduce tobacco use, to regulate environmental exposure, and to find alternatives to the massive use of biomass fuel, COPD will remain a major health-care problem for decades to come.
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Impact of preventing exacerbations on deterioration of health status in COPD.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of fluticasone propionate (FP) on exacerbations of chronic obstuctive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with worse health status.
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Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: GOLD Executive Summary updated 2003.

TL;DR: The definition and classification of Severity and its applications are explained in detail in Table 1.1.
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