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Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in asymptomatic smokers
BACKGROUND: Physicians do not routinely recommend smokers to undergo spirometry unless they are symptomatic. OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that there are a significant number of asymptomatic smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we estimated the prevalence of COPD in a group...
Autores principales: | Sansores, Raúl H, Velázquez-Uncal, Mónica, Pérez-Bautista, Oliver, Villalba-Caloca, Jaime, Falfán-Valencia, Ramcés, Ramírez-Venegas, Alejandra |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26586941 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S91742 |
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