Forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) variability in asymptomatic never-smoking men

Clinical Physiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 387-396

  Humerfelt, S ^a,b   Eide, G E ^a   Kvale G ^a   Gulsvik, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Community survey; Spirometric recordings; Within and between subject variability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING HABIT; SPIROMETER;

ADULT; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0031857374     PISSN: 01445979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2281.1998.00115.x     Document Type: Article

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