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Differences in the Spirometry Parameters Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Patients with COPD: A Matched Control Study.

Dorothy F L SzeTimothy P HowarthClair D LakeHelmi Ben SaadSubash Shanthakumar Heraganahally
Published in: International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2022)
Indigenous Australian patients with COPD display a significantly different demographic and clinical profile than non-Indigenous patients. LFPs were significantly lower, which may or may not equate to greater severity of disease in the absence of normative predictive lung function reference values specific to this population.
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