Introduction: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major and increasing global health problem with enormous amount of expenditure of direct/indirect health-care costs [1]. Quality of life (QOL) is an important domain for measuring the impact of chronic disease. The importance of measurement of quality of life (QOL) in COPD subjects is because no single measurement of lung function can satisfactorily identify the various disturbances that may cause S220 ABSTRACTS

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