Figure 4From: Prediction and course of symptoms and lung function around an exacerbation in chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseGraph of increases in moving weekly averages for the different symptom scores from the diaries at each day during follow-up. Triangles represent individual values of the increase at the day of a patient’s (first) exacerbation. The gray area represents the reference range at each day of follow-up, i.e. mean +/− 2 SD values of the increase for those who did not have an exacerbation at the days indicated.Back to article page