Penh is not a measure of airway resistance!
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Penh is not a measure of airway resistance!
We wish to express serious concern about an article in the current issue of the European Respiratory Journal, in which MEHTA et al. [1] reported the effects of choline treatment on airway hyperresponsiveness using unrestrained plethysmography to derive enhanced pause (Penh) as a measure of lung function. In the Methods section of their paper, MEHTA et al. [1] refer to a previous study by LUNDBL...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00091307