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Epidemiological investigations in the Netherlands into the influence of smoking and atmospheric pollution or respiratory symptoms and lung function disturbances

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Results of epidemiological cross-sectional studies of chronic non-specific lung diseases (CNSLD) in the Netherlands suggest that the exogenous factors smoking and atmospheric pollution have an effect on chronic production of phlegm.

These factors seemed to have no effect on bronchial obstruction, except in one subgroup of men, in whom there was a relationship between the exogenous factors and the prevalence of dyspnoea, although no relationship was found between these factors and impairment of FEV1. The implications of the findings are discussed.

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  1. Division of Pulmonary Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital, Groningen, the Netherlands

    R. van der Lende (Head of the TNO Research Unit for Epidemiology of CNSLD, of the Organization for Health Research TNO, the Netherlands. Chest Physician)

  2. TNO Research Unit for Epidemiology of CNSLD, The Netherlands

    B. F. Visser & J. Wever-Hess

  3. University of Leiden, The Netherland

    G. J. Tammeling (Professor of Physiology)

  4. University Hospital, Groningen

    K. de Vries (Head Department of Allergy)

  5. University Hospital, Groningen

    N. G. M. Orie (Professor of Pulmonary Diseases)

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van der Lende, R., Visser, B.F., Wever-Hess, J. et al. Epidemiological investigations in the Netherlands into the influence of smoking and atmospheric pollution or respiratory symptoms and lung function disturbances. Pneumonologie 149, 119–126 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02151747

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