Exploring the need to update lung age equations

Primary Care Respiratory Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 242-247

  Newbury, Wendy ^a,b   Newbury, Jonathan ^b   Briggs, Nancy ^a   Crockett, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Lung age; Smoking cessation; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL VALIDITY; LUNG AGE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOTIVATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; REVIEW; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 77957607427     PISSN: 14714418     EISSN: 14751534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4104/pcrj.2010.00029     Document Type: Review

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