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Alcohol and Lung Airways Function

Author(s) -

Stanton Siu,

Natalia Udaltsova,

Carlos Iribarren,

Arthur L. Klatsky

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

the permanente journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.445

H-Index - 30

eISSN - 1552-5775

pISSN - 1552-5767

DOI - 10.7812/tpp/09-089

Subject(s) - medicine , vital capacity , confounding , body mass index , national health and nutrition examination survey , logistic regression , spirometry , population , cross sectional study , cardiorespiratory fitness , demography , pulmonary function testing , lung function , environmental health , lung , asthma , pathology , diffusing capacity , sociology

Limited data suggest that moderate alcohol drinkers may have better lung airways function than abstainers. Because few studies have fully accounted for confounders (including smoking and coronary disease), and some might have been biased by the inclusion with nondrinkers of alcohol drinkers who quit because of illness, we performed a cross-sectional analysis in a large free-living population.

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