Published in

Dove Press, International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, p. 927

DOI: 10.2147/copd.s104644

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Vital capacity and COPD: the Swedish CArdioPulmonary bioImage Study (SCAPIS)

Journal article published in 2016 by Kjell Toren, Anna-Carin Olin, Anne Lindberg, Jenny Vikgren, John Brandberg, Ase Johnsson, Gunnar Engstrom, Lennart Persson, Magnus Skold, Jan Hedner, Eva Lindberg, Andrei Malinovschi, Eeva Piitulainen, Per Wollmer, Annika Rosengren and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

Full text: Download

Red circle
Preprint: archiving forbidden
Green circle
Postprint: archiving allowed
Upload
Green circle
Published version: archiving allowed
Upload
Policy details
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

Background: Spirometric diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is based on the ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1)/vital capacity (VC), either as a fixed value