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Vital capacity and COPD: the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS)
BACKGROUND: Spirometric diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is based on the ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV(1))/vital capacity (VC), either as a fixed value <0.7 or below the lower limit of normal (LLN). Forced vital capacity (FVC) is a proxy for VC. The f...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4859418/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27194908 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S104644 |