The term Asthma and COPD Overlap (ACO) has been developed to describe this condition. 4350).Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.Īsthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) can overlap and converge, causing subjects to suffer from symptoms of both conditions. 240008), the Wood Dust Foundation (Project No 444508795), the Danish Lung Association, the Norwegian Research Council (project 135773/330), the Norwegian Asthma and Allergy Association, the Icelandic Research Council and the Estonian Science Foundation (Grant No. Health, Aarhus University, Denmark (Project No. The RHINE study was funded by the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation, the Swedish Association Against Asthma and Allergy, the Swedish Association against Heart and Lung Disease, the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research, the Bror Hjerpstedt Foundation, the Vårdal Foundation for Health Care and Allergic Research, the Faculty of. The Gothenburg part of the study was mainly funded by the VBG Group Centre for Asthma and Allergy Research. The study was also financially supported by the Swedish Heart and Lung Foundation, the Swedish Asthma and Allergy Foundation and the Swedish Association against Heart and Lung Diseases. Requests for data can be sent to the Unit for Respiratory, Allergy and Sleep Research at the University Hospital in Uppsala: The GA2LEN survey was financially supported by the EU Sixth Framework Programme for Research, contract no. Data cannot be made freely available as they are subject to secrecy in accordance with the Swedish Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act, but can be made available to researchers upon request (subject to a review of secrecy). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: The dataset is held and managed by the Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Received: JanuAccepted: MaPublished: April 2, 2018Ĭopyright: © 2018 Mindus et al. PLoS ONE 13(4):Įditor: Stelios Loukides, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GREECE (2018) Asthma and COPD overlap (ACO) is related to a high burden of sleep disturbance and respiratory symptoms: Results from the RHINE and Swedish GA 2LEN surveys. Citation: Mindus S, Malinovschi A, Ekerljung L, Forsberg B, Gíslason T, Jõgi R, et al.

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