Subjects with Discordant Airways Obstruction: Lost between Spirometric Definitions of COPD

Background. Since the FEV1/FVC ratio declines with age, using the fixed ratio of 0.70 leads to overdiagnosis of COPD in older populations and underdiagnosis among young adults. Objective. To evaluate whether discordant obstructive cases (FEV1/FVC < 0.70 but ≥LLN) are a healthy population or have...

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Hauptverfasser: Lamprecht, Bernd, Schirnhofer, Lea, Kaiser, Bernhard, Buist, Sonia A., Mannino, David M., Studnicka, Michael
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3101606/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21637369
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/780215
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