Comparison of airway conductance and FEV1 as measures of airway responsiveness to methacholine. Discrimination of small differences in bronchial responsiveness with gaw and FEV1

Clinical Physiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 673-681

  Sundblad, Britt Marie ^a   Malmberg, Per ^a   Larsson, Kjell ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atopy; Methacholine; Occupational exposure; Provocation test

Indexed keywords

METHACHOLINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; ARTICLE; ATOPY; BRONCHUS REACTIVITY; BUILDING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DUST EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INHALATION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL NEBULIZER; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIC DUST; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOOD DUST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; BRONCHIAL PROVOCATION TESTS; BRONCHODILATOR AGENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DUST; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MALE; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 0035198423     PISSN: 01445979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2281.2001.00372.x     Document Type: Article

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