%0 Journal Article %A Cosío, Borja G %A Pascual-Guardia, Sergi %A Borras-Santos, Alicia %A Peces-Barba, Germán %A Santos, Salud %A Vigil, Laura %A Soler-Cataluña, Juan José %A Martínez-González, Cristina %A Casanova, Ciro %A Marcos, Pedro J %A Alvarez, Carlos J %A López-Campos, José Luis %A Gea, Joaquim %A Garcia-Aymerich, Judith %A Molina, Jesús %A Román, Miguel %A Moises, Jorge %A Szabo, Viktoria %A Reagan, Elizabeth A %A San José Estépar, Raúl %A Washko, George %A Agustí, Alvar %A Faner, Rosa %T Phenotypic characterisation of early COPD: a prospective case-control study. %D 2020 %@ 2312-0541 %U https://hdl.handle.net/10668/27811 %X The phenotypic characteristics of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in individuals younger than 50 years of age (early COPD) are not well defined. This prospective, multicentre, case-control study sought to describe these characteristics and compare them with those of smokers (≥10 pack-years) of similar age with normal spirometry (controls). We studied 92 cases (post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1)/forced vital capacity (FVC) %~