The single breath nitrogen test and mortality-A 38 years follow up

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 112, Issue , 2016, Pages 75-80

  Olofson, Jan ^a   Bake, Björn ^a   Bergman, Bengt ^a   Svärdsudd, Kurt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Mortality; Single breath nitrogen test; Small airways function; Smoking; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SINGLE BREATH NITROGEN TEST; SMOKING; SMOKING HABIT; SPIROMETRY; SURVIVAL RATE; BREATH ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GAS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SWEDEN;

GAS; NITROGEN;

BREATH TESTS; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SWEDEN;

EID: 84960111170     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2016.01.002     Document Type: Article

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