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Is small airway dysfunction an abnormality independently associated with aging? A cross-sectional analysis from the ECOPD cohort
2022-05-05
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<h4>Background: </h4> Aging has been evidenced to bring about some structural and functional lung changes, especially in COPD. However, whether aging affects SAD, a possible precursor of COPD, has not been well characterized. Objective We aimed to comprehensively assess the relationship between aging and SAD from computed tomography, impulse oscillometry, and spirometry perspectives in Chinese. Methods We includ...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fb756790-1c22-5670-bcfe-f7c382f427ba
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1601296/v1
