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Of note, while the literature suggests that smokers with COPD may be more inflamed than smokers without COPD 39,40,41 we did not see any substantial differences in IL-6, CRP, VEGF or IL-17 levels between the 9 smokers with COPD and the 21 non-COPD smokers