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ArticlePulmonary medicine2025

Relation of Changes in PEF and FEV

Leon L Csonka, Antti Tikkakoski, Liisa Vuotari, Jussi Karjalainen, Lauri Lehtimäki

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Article in Pulmonary medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Relation of changes in PEF and FEVEuropean clinical respiratory journal · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Leon L CsonkaFaculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0215-0805
Antti TikkakoskiDepartment of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
Liisa VuotariDepartment of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
Jussi KarjalainenFaculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Lauri LehtimäkiFaculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Asthma diagnosis can be confirmed by observing significant bronchodilator response (BDR) through peak expiratory flow (PEF) at home or forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV

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PMID40661699
PMCPMC12259322

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