Respiratory Medicine
Volume 104, Issue 5 , Pages 705-711 , May 2010

Racial discordance in spirometry comparing four commonly used reference equations to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study III

  • Jacob Collen

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 703 966 1598; fax: +1 202 782 9032.
    • ,
  • David Greenburg

      Affiliations

    • General Internal Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, USA
    • ,
  • Aaron Holley

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
    • ,
  • Christopher King

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
    • ,
  • Stuart Roop

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
    • ,
  • Oleh Hnatiuk

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Received 8 June 2009 ,Accepted 2 November 2009.

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☆ The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the US Government.

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doi: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.11.001

Respiratory Medicine
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