Systemic inflammatory response to smoking in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: evidence of a gender effect.

Importantly, because several previous reports suggest that there may be significant gender differences in the natural history of COPD [8] – [10] and some experimental observations show that the leukocyte transcriptional response to other acute stressors (infection) is different in males and females [11] , we recruited participants stratified by sex.

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