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Effects within the week on forced vital capacity are correlated with long term changes in pulmonary function:

M Dahlqvist1, G Tornling, N Plato

  • 1Department of Environmental Technology and Work Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine
|March 1, 1995
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