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Thorax 67:662 doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2011-201436
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Using lung cancer screening as an opportunity to diagnose COPD

  1. Marianne L S Tinkler
  1. Correspondence to Dr Marianne L S Tinkler, ST4, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Respiratory Department, Malborough Road, Swindon SN3 6BB, UK; mariannetinkler{at}hotmail.com

Early diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) allows increased opportunity for smoking cessation advice and treatment, which potentially improves prognosis. This single-centre, prospective cross-sectional study investigated whether screening CT scans could diagnose COPD without the need for pulmonary function testing (PFT).

One thousand one hundred and forty men, ex or current smokers (>16.5 pack year history), aged 50–75 years, …

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