Reconsidering the arm span-height relationship in patients referred for spirometry
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Reconsidering the arm span-height relationship in patients referred for spirometry.
The interpretation of pulmonary function tests relies on reference values corrected for age, sex and height. Height may be difficult to measure in patients with deformities of the thoracic cage or those unable to stand up properly. Current practice is to substitute arm span to height, once corrected either by a fixed factor or by an age- and sex-dependent regression equation. However arm span m...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00199209