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Median regression spline modeling of longitudinal FEV1 measurements in cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Conrad Douglas J, Bailey Barbara A, Hardie Jon A, Bakke Per S, Eagan Tomas M L, Aarli Bernt B
Abstract excerpt
RATIONALE: Clinical phenotyping, therapeutic investigations as well as genomic, airway secretion metabolomic and metagenomic investigations can benefit from robust, nonlinear modeling of FEV1 in individual subjects. We demonstrate the utility of measuring FEV1 dynamics in representative cystic fibrosis (CF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) populations. METHODS: Individual FEV1 data from CF and...
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