Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in asymptomatic smokers

BACKGROUND: Physicians do not routinely recommend smokers to undergo spirometry unless they are symptomatic. OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that there are a significant number of asymptomatic smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), we estimated the prevalence of COPD in a group...

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Gepubliceerd in:Int J Chron Obstruct Pulmon Dis
Hoofdauteurs: Sansores, Raúl H, Velázquez-Uncal, Mónica, Pérez-Bautista, Oliver, Villalba-Caloca, Jaime, Falfán-Valencia, Ramcés, Ramírez-Venegas, Alejandra
Formaat: Artigo
Taal:Inglês
Gepubliceerd in: Dove Medical Press 2015
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Online toegang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636090/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26586941
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S91742
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