Chronic respiratory disease – the acceptable epidemic?
Peter Burney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmedicine.17-1-29
Clin Med February 2017 Peter Burney
ANational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK
Roles: senior research fellow

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vol. 17 no. 1 29-32
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- Published online February 1, 2017.
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Chronic respiratory disease – the acceptable epidemic?
Peter Burney
Clinical Medicine Feb 2017, 17 (1) 29-32; DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.17-1-29
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- Introduction
- The British hypothesis
- A new orthodoxy
- Explaining deaths from COPD
- The central importance of lung size
- Problems of measurement
- Problems of interpretation
- The origins of low lung volumes
- Poverty and death
- Implications for science policy
- Understanding the failure in science policy
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