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Lifetime environmental tobacco smoke exposure and the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BACKGROUND: Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), which contains potent respiratory irritants, may lead to chronic airway inflammation and obstruction. Although ETS exposure appears to cause asthma in children and adults, its role in causing COPD has received limited attention in epidemiolo...

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Autores principales: Eisner, Mark D, Balmes, John, Katz, Patricia P, Trupin, Laura, Yelin, Edward H, Blanc, Paul D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1145187/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15890079
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-4-7

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