Interstitial lung abnormalities are associated with increased mortality in smokers

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8819989	Respiratory Medicine	2018	6 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Interstitial lung abnormalities were common in this lung cancer screening population of relatively healthy smokers and were associated with mortality regardless of the interstitial morphological phenotype. The increased mortality was partly due to an association with lung cancer and non-pulmonary malignancies.

Keywords

Epidemiology Interstitial lung disease computed tomography Lung cancer screening idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

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Interstitial lung abnormalities are associated with increased mortality in smokers

Authors

Nils Hoyer, Mathilde M.W. Wille, Laura H. Thomsen, Torgny Wilcke, Asger Dirksen, Jesper H. Pedersen, Zaigham Saghir, Haseem Ashraf, Saher B. Shaker,