Repeated measures of FEV1 over six to twelve months: What change is abnormal?

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 591-595

  Wang, Mei Lin ^a   Petsonk, Edward L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COAL MINING; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPIROMETRY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WHEEZING; AGED; CAUCASIAN; FOLLOW UP; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REFERENCE VALUE; SMOKING; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

FROG ERYTHROCYTIC VIRUS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; COAL MINING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; METHACHOLINE CHLORIDE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SMOKING; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 2942530507     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000128159.09520.2a     Document Type: Article

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