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Role of spirometric testing in smoking cessation
Pulmonary function testing offers an easy, inexpensive, and non-invasive means of diagnosing and staging chronic lung disease.1,2 It provides information on both the presence of obstructive lung disease and restrictive lung disease and can provide insights on how patients might respond to treatment.3,4 Spirometric testing also provides prognostic information, with lung function measures predicting mortality and the development of lung cancer.5,6
Despite the valuable information that spirometric testing provides, it is underused in medical practices in much of the world. There are several reasons for this, including (1) problems with doing the procedure,7 (2) problems related to compensation, and …
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