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"GOLD or lower limit of normal definition? a comparison with expert-based diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a prospective cohort-study"

BACKGROUND: The Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) defines COPD as a fixed post-bronchodilator ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second and forced vital capacity (FEV1/FVC) below 0.7. Age-dependent cut-off values below the lower fifth percentile (LLN) of this ratio de...

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Autores principales: Güder, Gülmisal, Brenner, Susanne, Angermann, Christiane E, Ertl, Georg, Held, Matthias, Sachs, Alfred P, Lammers, Jan-Willem, Zanen, Pieter, Hoes, Arno W, Störk, Stefan, Rutten, Frans H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3299632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22309369
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-13-13