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The Lung Foundation's Australian IPF Registry most recent publications describing baseline characteristics of 647 IPF patients registered in the Australian IPF Registry has just been published in the European Respiratory Journal.
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The paper reports on baseline characteristics, including comorbidities, diagnostic procedures and quality of life. The authors further provide data on mortality outcomes, with a 4-year mortality rate of 44%, associations of baseline pulmonary function data to mortality and the significant, positive impact of anti-fibrotic therapy on survival.
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This page is a summary of: Baseline characteristics of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis from the Australian Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Registry, European Respiratory Journal, February 2017, European Respiratory Society (ERS),
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01592-2016.
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