Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Vol 156, No. 3, 09 1997, 1004-1010.
Pulmonary function testing in population-based studies
TA Manolio, GG Weinmann, AS Buist, CD Furberg, JL Pinsky and SH Hurd
Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-7934, USA.
A wealth of information on pulmonary function is currently available in
NHLBI-sponsored, population-based studies. These data can be used to
address critically important questions in pulmonary and cardiovascular
disease research, but their potential cannot be realized without the active
collaboration of pulmonary- and cardiovascular-disease researchers.
Investigators interested in analyzing these data in collaboration with the
parent study investigators are invited to contact these investigators
directly (see APPENDIX). Results of analyses recommended in the workshop
should be used to identify hypotheses for future efforts in collecting data
on the epidemiology of pulmonary diseases and their relationship to
cardiovascular disease.
