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Obesity and Pulmonary Function in African Americans
BACKGROUND: Obesity prevalence in United States (US) adults exceeds 30% with highest prevalence being among blacks. Obesity is known to have significant effects on respiratory function and obese patients commonly report respiratory complaints requiring pulmonary function tests (PFTs). However, there...
Autores principales: | Mehari, Alem, Afreen, Samina, Ngwa, Julius, Setse, Rosanna, Thomas, Alicia N., Poddar, Vishal, Davis, Wayne, Polk, Octavius D., Hassan, Sheik, Thomas, Alvin V. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4619259/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26488406 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140610 |
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