Reference values for lung function tests: I. Static volumes
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Reference values for lung function tests. I. Static volumes.
Static lung volume (LV) measurements have a number of clinical and research applications; however, no previous studies have provided reference values for such tests using a healthy sample of the adult Brazilian population. With this as our main purpose, we prospectively evaluated 100 non-smoking subjects (50 males and 50 females), 20 to 80 years old, randomly selected from more than 8,000 indiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0100-879X
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x1999000600006