Efficacy and Safety of Fluticasone Furoate/Vilanterol vs. Umeclidinium/Vilanterol in Patients With COPD-asthma Phenotype vs. Emphysema Phenotype. A Controled Clinical Trial.

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This is a randomized, blinded, controlled clinical trial for mexican COPD patients. Biomass smoke associated COPD (BS-COPD) clinical spectrum is different to the one seen in tobacco smoke associated COPD (TS-COPD). BS-COPD patients present COPD-asthma phenotype or asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS), TS-COPD patients present mostly the emphysema phenotype. BS-COPD patients have a greater risk of exacerbations in comparison to the emphysema phenotype. Therefore, individualizing treatment in both phenotypes may be very useful among the clinical practitioners. The investigators expect treatment with FF/V to be superior in preventing COPD exacerbations than the U/V combination in patients with COPD-asthma phenotype; andU/V to be superior than FF/V in patients with the emphysema phenotype. The general objective of the study is to determine the exacerbations outcome in patients with COPD-asthma vs emphysema phenotype patients, treated with both drugs. Secondary objectives include assessment of pulmonary function tests, quality of life, dyspnea and functional capacity change after a 24 weeks treatment.

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