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  • Title: [Lung volume, capacity and alveolar ventilation in smokers].
    Author: German AK.
    Journal: Vrach Delo; 1990 Mar; (3):37-8. PubMed ID: 2368357.
    Abstract:
    Pulmonary volume and capacity as well as the intensity of alveolar ventilation depending on the length of smoking were examined in 60 practically healthy smokers and 30 non-smoking males. It was established that smokers with a smoking length of 6-10 years revealed a significant increase of residual pulmonary volume, volume of breathing dead space and a reduction of the alveolar ventilation/minute pulmonary volume ratio indicating a reduction of the amount of ventilated air. The revealed changes are results of a reduction of the pulmonary elasticity due to development of restrictive disorders in the parenchyma.
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