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Author: Ester Cuevas; Daniel Huertas; Concepción Montón; Alicia Marin; Anna Carrera-Salinas; Xavier Pomares; Marian García-Nuñez; Sara Martí; Salud Santos Creator: Adobe InDesign 14.0 (Windows) Producer: Adobe PDF Library 15.0 CreationDate: Sat Jul 22 10:12:06 2023 CEST ModDate: Sat Jul 22 10:12:17 2023 CEST Custom Metadata: no Metadata Stream: yes Tagged: yes UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 10 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) Page rot: 0 File size: 1753505 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.6 name type encoding emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- --------- WFBOPA+MuseoSans-500 Type 1C Custom yes yes yes 8 0 TYNWZG+MuseoSans-300 Type 1C Custom yes yes yes 12 0 RVOKXK+MuseoSans-700 Type 1C Custom yes yes yes 9 0 PSPTVO+MuseoSans-300Italic Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes yes 1521 0 OTANHQ+MinionPro-Regular Type 1C Custom yes yes yes 10 0 LMMVRW+STIXGeneral-Regular Type 1C Custom yes yes yes 11 0 IKYDBC+MuseoSans-300-SC750 Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes yes 13 0 HGOXNE+MinionPro-It Type 1C Custom yes yes yes 38 0 FDKLLI+STIX-Regular Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes yes 39 0 FDKLLI+MuseoSans-500Italic Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes yes 79 0 FDKLLI+MinionPro-Bold Type 1C WinAnsi yes yes yes 80 0 Jhove (Rel. 1.28.0, 2023-05-18) Date: 2024-03-26 02:35:16 CET RepresentationInformation: pmc_10406447.pdf ReportingModule: PDF-hul, Rel. 1.12.4 (2023-03-16) LastModified: 2024-03-15 02:37:53 CET Size: 1753505 Format: PDF Version: 1.6 Status: Well-Formed and valid SignatureMatches: PDF-hul MIMEtype: application/pdf Profile: Tagged PDF PDFMetadata: Objects: 1572 FreeObjects: 1 IncrementalUpdates: 0 DocumentCatalog: ViewerPreferences: HideToolbar: false HideMenubar: false HideWindowUI: false FitWindow: false CenterWindow: false DisplayDocTitle: false NonFullScreenPageMode: UseNone Direction: L2R ViewArea: CropBox ViewClip: CropBox PrintArea: CropBox PageClip: CropBox PageLayout: SinglePage PageMode: UseNone Language: en-GB Outlines: Item: Title: Systemic and functional effects of continuous azithromycin treatment in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and frequent exacerbations Children: Item: Title: 1. Introduction Item: Title: 2. Methods Children: Item: Title: 2.1. Study design Item: Title: 2.2. Patient selection Item: Title: 2.3. Visits and follow-up Item: Title: 2.4. Quantification of inflammatory parameters in blood and sputum Item: Title: 2.5. Sputum collection and bacterial load detection Item: Title: 2.6. Statistical analyzes Item: Title: 3. Results Children: Item: Title: 3.1. Study subjects Item: Title: 3.2. Clinical and functional effects after continuous azithromycin treatment Item: Title: 3.3. Inflammatory changes in serum and sputum Item: Title: 3.4. Predictors of clinical response in study participants Item: Title: 3.5. Effect of treatment with azithromycin on COPD exacerbations Item: Title: 3.6. Microbiological effect of continuous azithromycin treatment Item: Title: 4. Discussion Item: Title: Data availability statement Item: Title: Ethics statement Item: Title: Author contributions Item: Title: Funding Item: Title: Conflict of interest Item: Title: Publisher’s note Item: Title: Supplementary material Item: Title: References Info: Title: Systemic and functional effects of continuous azithromycin treatment in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and frequent exacerbations Author: Ester Cuevas; Daniel Huertas; Concepción Montón; Alicia Marin; Anna Carrera-Salinas; Xavier Pomares; Marian García-Nuñez; Sara Martí; Salud Santos Subject: Background: Continuous treatment with azithromycin may lead to fewer acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD), but little is known of its impact on systemic and functional outcomes in real-life settings. 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