Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Volume 108, Issue 10 , Pages 772-777 , October 2009

Exhaled Nitric Oxide in a Taiwanese Population: Age and Lung Function as Predicting Factors

  • Hsu-Chung Liu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
    • Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Jeng-Yuan Hsu

      Affiliations

    • Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
    • Institute of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Jeng-Yuan Hsu, Division of Chest Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, No. 160, Section 3, Chung-Kang Road, Taichung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ya-Wen Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ming-Chih Chou

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

Received 26 July 2008 ,Revised 20 February 2009 ,Accepted 20 April 2009.

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PII: S0929-6646(09)60404-6

doi: 10.1016/S0929-6646(09)60404-6

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Volume 108, Issue 10 , Pages 772-777 , October 2009

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