Airway wall thickness on HRCT scans decreases with age and increases with smoking

BACKGROUND: To investigate if age, gender and smoking are associated with airway wall thickness (AWT) measured by high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) and if higher AWT is associated with lower levels of pulmonary function in healthy current- and never-smokers with a wide age range. METHODS: H...

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Autores principales: Telenga, Eef D., Oudkerk, Matthijs, van Ooijen, Peter M. A., Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn, ten Hacken, Nick H. T., Postma, Dirkje S., van den Berge, Maarten
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5286807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28143620
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-017-0363-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5286807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28143620
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-017-0363-0

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