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SUBMITTER: Regan EA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4564354 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Regan Elizabeth A EA Lynch David A DA Curran-Everett Douglas D Curtis Jeffrey L JL Austin John H M JH Grenier Philippe A PA Kauczor Hans-Ulrich HU Bailey William C WC DeMeo Dawn L DL Casaburi Richard H RH Friedman Paul P Van Beek Edwin J R EJ Hokanson John E JE Bowler Russell P RP Beaty Terri H TH Washko George R GR Han MeiLan K MK Kim Victor V Kim Song Soo SS Yagihashi Kunihiro K Washington Lacey L McEvoy Charlene E CE Tanner Clint C Mannino David M DM Make Barry J BJ Silverman Edwin K EK Crapo James D JD
JAMA internal medicine 20150901 9
<h4>Importance</h4>Airflow obstruction on spirometry is universally used to define chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and current or former smokers without airflow obstruction may assume that they are disease free.<h4>Objective</h4>To identify clinical and radiologic evidence of smoking-related disease in a cohort of current and former smokers who did not meet spirometric criteria for COPD, for whom we adopted the discarded label of Global Initiative for Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD ...[more]