Cigarette smoking and airway wall thickness on CT scan in a multi-ethnic cohort: The MESA Lung Study

BACKGROUND: Autopsy studies show that smoking contributes to airway wall hyperplasia and narrowing of the airway lumen. Studies of smoking and airway measures on computed tomography (CT) scan are limited to case-control studies of measures that combine airway lumen and wall thickness. OBJECTIVES: We...

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Autori principali: Donohue, Kathleen M., Hoffman, Eric A., Baumhauer, Heather, Guo, Junfeng, Budoff, Matthew, Austin, John H.M., Kalhan, Ravi, Kawut, Steven, Tracy, Russell, Barr, R. Graham
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: 2012
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3549633/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22974831
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmed.2012.08.006
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