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Evaluating the forced oscillation technique in the detection of early smoking-induced respiratory changes

BACKGROUND: Early detection of the effects of smoking is of the utmost importance in the prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The forced oscillation technique (FOT) is easy to perform since it requires only tidal breathing and offers a detailed approach to investigate the mech...

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Autores principales: Faria, Alvaro CD, Lopes, Agnaldo J, Jansen, José M, Melo, Pedro L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2760559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19781078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-925X-8-22