Assessing the airways

Chronic Respiratory Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 115-119

  Enright, P ^a   McCormack, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway resistance; Asthma; Bronchodilator response; COPD; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

AIRWAY DYNAMICS; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; HOME MONITORING; OSCILLATOR; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPIROMETRY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; VITAL CAPACITY;

ASTHMA; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 53449090264     PISSN: 14799723     EISSN: 14799731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1479972308091578     Document Type: Review

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