Article
Sex differences in emphysema phenotype in smokers without airflow obstruction.
The European respiratory journal - 1 Jun 2009
Sverzellati N, Calabrò E, Randi G, La Vecchia C, Marchianò A, Kuhnigk J-M, Zompatori M, Spagnolo P, Pastorino U
Abstract excerpt
Data on sex differences in emphysema are limited to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We aimed to verify whether such differences also exist in smokers without airflow obstruction, weighting their influence on the relationship between emphysema and clinical features. We evaluated both clinical and multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) data of 1,011 heavy smokers recruited by a lung cancer screening...
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