Small lungs and obstructed airways : reassessing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease /
Small Lungs and Obstructed Airways: Reassessing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease proposes an alternative perspective to current explanations for the distribution of chronic lung disease. The book considers the link between chronic respiratory disease and associated mortality with smaller lungs...
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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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London, United Kingdom :
Academic Press,
[2025]
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- Front Cover
- Small Lungs and Obstructed Airways
- Small Lungs and Obstructed Airways
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1
- Introduction
- Lung function and health
- The Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study
- The limitations of spirometry
- 2
- How much lung function is too little?
- Why convert continuous to binary measures
- the clinical imperative
- What do we mean by abnormality?
- Developing prediction equations
- Using prediction equations
- Which prediction equations to use and how many do we need?
- Summary
- 3
- Indoor and outdoor environment
- Indoor environment
- Systematic reviews of cross-sectional studies on household air pollution and COPD
- Longitudinal studies on household air pollution and COPD
- Randomized controlled trials on household air pollution and lung function
- Controlled human exposure to wood smoke
- Outdoor environment
- Cross-sectional studies on outdoor air pollution and COPD
- Longitudinal studies on outdoor air pollution and COPD
- Controlled human exposure to traffic-related particles
- Conclusion
- 4
- Occupational exposures