Ventilatory function of healthy, urban, non smoking, Pakistani young adults aged 18-24 years

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 93, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 546-551

  Nadeem, M A ^a   Raza, S N ^b,c   Malik, M A ^b  

^a MAYO HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b KING EDWARD MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAKISTAN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0032831545     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0954-6111(99)90153-1     Document Type: Article

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