Vital capacity and residual lung volume (in terms of 1/min or ml/m of body surface area) of 357 subjects (205 males, 152 females) was evaluated in La Paz, Bolivia, situated at 3,750 m. The sample included: (1) 37 high altitude rural natives (all male), (2) 125 high altitude urban natives (69 male, 5
Estimation of genetic and environmental components in colorectal and lung cancer and melanoma
✍ Scribed by Kari Hemminki; Ingrid Lönnstedt; Pauli Vaittinen; Paul Lichtenstein
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 34 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0741-0395
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