Comparison of spirometric thresholds in diagnosing smoking-related airflow obstruction: authors' response

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

Comment

Surya P Bhatt et al. Thorax. 2014 Dec.

. 2014 Dec;69(12):1147-8.

doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-206123. Epub 2014 Sep 9.

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
² Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

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Keywords: COPD epidemiology.

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