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Forced expiratory volumes in 3 s is a sensitive clinical measure for assessment of bronchodilator reversibility in elderly Chinese with severe lung function impairment

PURPOSE: Sensitively assessing bronchial reversibility by spirometry is difficult in patients with serious airflow limitation and the elderly. Some patients cannot exhale for ≥6 s to achieve FVC testing criteria. The aim of this study was to assess if FEV(3) could be a more sensitive and an acceptab...

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Autores principales: Pan, Mingming, Zhang, Hongsheng, Sun, Tieying
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6689797/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31496679
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S197552