Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 10 , Pages 1327-1333 , October 2006

Determinants of Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 Second (FEV1), Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), and FEV1/FVC in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury

Presented to the American Paraplegia Society, September 7−9, 2004, Las Vegas, NV.

  • Nitin B. Jain, MD, MSPH

      Affiliations

    • Research Service, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine Service, and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA
    • Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Robert Brown, MD

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Carlos G. Tun, MD

      Affiliations

    • Research Service, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine Service, and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • David Gagnon, MD, MPH, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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  • Eric Garshick, MD, MOH

      Affiliations

    • Research Service, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine Service, and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, VA Boston Healthcare System, West Roxbury, MA
    • Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
    • Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Eric Garshick, MD, MOH, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Section, VA Boston Healthcare System, 1400 VFW Pkwy, West Roxbury, MA 02132

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 Supported by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health (grant no. RO1 HD42141), the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center, Cooperative Studies Program, and Health Services Research and Development, Department of Veterans Affairs.No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the author(s) or upon any organization with which the author(s) is/are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(06)00685-X

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.06.015

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 87, Issue 10 , Pages 1327-1333 , October 2006

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