PROGNOSIS OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD) AND TREAMENT FOR COPD

摘要

The preset invention relates to a method for predicting the disease outcome and/or prognosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) using a variant of surfactant protein D (SP-D) as a biomarker, which is the G-G-C-C-A haplotype of SP-D.