Reply to Chen et al.: Reexamining Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Bronchiectasis: Elucidating Overdiagnosis and Outcomes from EMBARC's ROSE Criteria

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, United Kingdom.
• ² Population and Health Science Institute, Newcastle University and National Institute for Health and Care Research Biomedical Research Centre for Ageing, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, United Kingdom.
• ³ Respiratory Unit, Scientific Institutes of Hospitalization and Care Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ Department of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy.
• ⁵ Pneumology Department, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus, Biomedical Research Centre, Barcelona, Spain; and.
• ⁶ Thorax Institute, Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.