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Tomographic and functional findings in severe COPD: comparison between the wood smoke-related and smoking-related disease

OBJECTIVE: Wood smoke exposure is a risk factor for COPD. For a given degree of airway obstruction, the reduction in DLCO is smaller in individuals with wood smoke-related COPD than in those with smoking-related COPD, suggesting that there is less emphysema in the former. The objective of this study...

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Autores principales: González-García, Mauricio, Gomez, Dario Maldonado, Torres-Duque, Carlos A., Barrero, Margarita, Villegas, Claudia Jaramillo, Pérez, Juan Manuel, Varon, Humberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4075823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23670499
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37132013000200005