Lung function decline in relation to diagnostic criteria for airflow obstruction in respiratory symptomatic subjects

BACKGROUND: Current COPD guidelines advocate a fixed < 0.70 FEV1/FVC cutpoint to define airflow obstruction. We compared rate of lung function decline in respiratory symptomatic 40+ subjects who were 'obstructive' or 'non-obstructive' according to the fixed and/or age and gend...

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Autores principales: Akkermans, Reinier P, Berrevoets, Marvin A, Smeele, Ivo J, Lucas, Annelies E, Thoonen, Bart P, Grootens-Stekelenburg, Joke G, Heijdra, Yvonne F, van Weel, Chris, Schermer, Tjard R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22439763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-12-12

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3355014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22439763
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2466-12-12

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