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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2023

Asthma-COPD Overlap in Clinical Practice (ACO_CP 2023): Toward Precision Medicine.

Ahmad R Alsayed, Mahmoud S Abu-Samak, Mohammad Alkhatib

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. The Evolving Landscape of COPD Typization.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026
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  10. Plasma Levels of CXCL9 and MCP-3 are Increased in Asthma-COPD Overlap (ACO) Patients.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ahmad R AlsayedDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Applied Science Private University, Amman 11937, Jordan.ORCID 0000-0002-1324-7884
Mahmoud S Abu-SamakDepartment of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Applied Science Private University, Amman 11937, Jordan.
Mohammad AlkhatibDepartment of Experimental Medicine, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", 00133 Roma, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0085-8990

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma and COPD have characteristic symptoms, yet patients with both are prevalent. Despite this, there is currently no globally accepted definition for the overlap between asthma and COPD, commonly referred to as asthma-COPD overlap (ACO). Generally, ACO is not considered a distinct disease or symptom from either clinical or mechanistic perspectives. However, identifying patients who present with both conditions is crucial for guiding clinical therapy. Similar to asthma and COPD, ACO patients are heterogeneous and presumably have multiple underlying disease processes. The variability of ACO patients led to the establishment of multiple definitions describing the condition's essential clinical, physiological, and molecular characteristics. ACO comprises numerous phenotypes, which affects the optimal medication choice and can serve as a predictor of disease prognosis. Various phenotypes of ACO have been suggested based on host factors including but not limited to demographics, symptoms, spirometric findings, smoking history, and underlying airway inflammation. This review provides a comprehensive clinical guide for ACO patients to be used in clinical practice based on the available limited data. Future longitudinal studies must evaluate the stability of ACO phenotypes over time and explore their predictive powers to facilitate a more precise and effective management approach.

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ACOasthmaclinical guideCOPDpersonalized medicinephenotypeprecision medicine

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PMID37109063
PMCPMC10146260

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