Both men were later diagnosed with lung cancer
The use of pack-years to assess the risk of developing COPD or some other lung diseases has been criticized for being a measure based on the assumption that both smoking intensity and duration are of equal importance.11,16,26 However, some authors argue that it should continue to be used because of its simplicity and because it is a measure that provides information on the cumulative amount of tobacco consumption.9,16,27,28 In this study, COPD risk increases linearly with the increase in pack/years, an aspect that also occurs in the nonparametric model
The medical staff continued to test Nathans blood, urine and sputum, but found no clues
I ignored the pleas of friends and family that I see a doctor, since by now I was scared of what he might tell me about my suddenly unreliable body
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