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. 2023 Aug;20(8):1217-1219.
doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202301-090RL.

Spirometry in Mixed-Race Civil War Veterans

Aaron D Baugh  1 , Prescott Woodruff  1 , Stephen Shiboski  1 , David V Glidden  1 , Victor E Ortega  2 , Neeta Thakur  1
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Spirometry in Mixed-Race Civil War Veterans

Aaron D Baugh et al. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2023 Aug.
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Figure 1.
Linear regression of standing measured vital capacity versus standing height for people of “Full Black” (African American), “White” (non-Hispanic White), and “Mulatto” (mixed race) race, from Gould’s Table VI. Each dot represents one of the category values given by Gould in Table VI. CI = confidence interval.
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