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The article reports on a study to determine the most important variables influencing health-related quality of with clinically stable bronchiectasis. It is characterized by chronic expectoration, progressive dyspnea that may become incapacitating, pulmonary functional deterioration, and multiple infectious exacerbations. The study comprised all patients with bronchiectasis involving more than one lobe or cystic bronchiectasis not attributable to cystic fibrosis in a medical care unit during the period between 1990 and 2003.