Management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the Middle East and North Africa: Results of the BREATHE study
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Conflict of interest statement
MI has received honoraria from GlaxoSmithKline Laboratories for his contribution to the BREATHE study and has received speaking honoraria from AstraZeneca, Novartis, Sanofi, MSD, Pfizer, Actelion and Bayer. M-LK, ST, NS, MP, ABK, AA, GI, AK and AJ have received honoraria from GlaxoSmithKline Laboratories for their contribution to the BREATHE study. NR and AEH are employees of GlaxoSmithKline Laboratories, which funded the BREATHE study and market a number of treatments for COPD.
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All academic authors contributed equally to the work presented.
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BREATHE Steering Committee members (in alphabetical order of names): Ashraf Alzaabi, Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE; Majed Beji, La Rabta Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia; Ali Ben Kheder, Abderrahmane Mami Hospital, Tunis, Tunisia; Majdy Idrees, Riyadh Military Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Ghali Iraqi, Moulay Youssef Hospital, Rabat, Morocco; Arshad Javed, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan; Javaid Ahmed Khan, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan; Adel Khattab, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Marie Louise Koniski, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon; Bassam Mahboub, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE; Salim Nafti, Mustapha Bacha Hospital, Algiers, Algeria; Nathir M. Obeidat, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan; Mehmet Polatli, Adnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey; Abdullah Sayiner, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey; Naem Shahrour, Alasaad University Hospital, Damascus, Syria; Mohamed Awad Tageldin, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Samya Taright, Bab-El-Oued Hospital, Algiers, Algeria; Esra Uzaslan, Uludag University Medical Faculty, Bursa, Turkey; Siraj Wali, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
BREATHE core team members: Abdelkader El Hasnaoui, GlaxoSmithKline, Dubai, UAE; Nauman Rashid, GlaxoSmithKline, Dubai, UAE; Aïcha Lahlou, MS Health, Rabat, Morocco; Adam Doble, Foxymed, Paris, France, Hocine Salhi, Foxymed, Paris, France and Chakib Nejjari Faculty of Medicine of Fez, Fez, Morocco.