Article
Relation of serum elastin peptide concentration to age, FEV1, smoking habits, alcohol consumption, and protease inhibitor phenotype: an epidemiological study in working men.
Thorax - 1 Nov 1992
Frette C, Wei S M, Neukirch F, Sesboüé R, Martin J P, Jacob M P, Kauffmann F
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In clinical investigations elastin peptide concentration has been proposed as one potential marker of lung elastin degradation. No epidemiological study has yet confirmed this hypothesis. METHODS: The relation of elastin peptide concentration to some factors closely related to pulmonary emphysema (age, smoking habits, FEV1 alpha protease inhibitor (PI) phenotype) and to alcohol consumption was...
Topics
- Adult
- Aging
- Alcohol Drinking
- Elastin
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- Forced Expiratory Volume
- France
- Humans
- Longitudinal Studies
- Male
- Middle Aged