Blood eosinophil count and exacerbation risk in patients with COPD

Affiliations

• ¹ Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute (OPRI), Singapore, Singapore.
• ² Dept of Pulmonology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ³ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
• ⁴ Dept of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁵ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Respiratory Institute, Hospital Clínic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁷ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en red Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain.
• ⁸ Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA.
• ⁹ Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, USA.
• ¹⁰ Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry (PU PSMD), Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK.
• ¹¹ Dept of Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
• ¹² Respiratory Medicine Unit, Nuffield Dept of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ¹³ Asthma Research Centre (NUPAIVA), University Hospital, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
• ¹⁴ Clinic of Allergy and Asthma, Medical University Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• ¹⁵ Unit EA2511 (Cystic Fibrosis and Chronic bronchopathy), Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
• ¹⁶ Hôpital Cochin, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
• ¹⁷ Allergy and Respiratory Research Group, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹⁸ Primary Care and Population Sciences, Aldermoor Health Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK.
• ¹⁹ NIHR Southampton Respiratory Biomedical Research Centre, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK.
• ²⁰ Dept of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine), University Medical Center Giessen and Marburg, Philipps-University Marburg, Marburg, Germany.
• ²¹ German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Marburg, Germany.
• ²² On behalf of the Respiratory Effectiveness Group, Cambridge, UK.
• ²³ Mundesley Medical Centre, Mundesley, UK.
• ²⁴ Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute (OPRI), Singapore, Singapore dprice@opri.sg.
• ²⁵ Institute of Applied Health Sciences (Academic Primary Care), University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.