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Rapid decline in lung function in coal miners: Evidence of disease in small airways |
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| Authors: | Robert C. Stansbury MD Lu‐Ann F. Beeckman‐Wagner PhD Mei‐Lin Wang MD Jeffery P. Hogg MD Edward L. Petsonk MD |
| Affiliation: | 1. Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, , Morgantown, West Virginia;2. Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, , Morgantown, West Virginia;3. Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, , Morgantown, West Virginia |
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| Keywords: | small airway disease pneumoconiosis spirometry obstructive lung disease coal mining bronchial hyperreactivity |