Urine Desmosine is Unrelated to Cigarette Smoking or to Spirometric Function
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Thoracic Society in American Review of Respiratory Disease
- Vol. 128 (3) , 473-475
- https://doi.org/10.1164/arrd.1983.128.3.473
Abstract
Urine desmosine was measured by radioimmunoassay in 157 subjects. Desmosine excretion (expressed as desmosine/creatinine ratio) did not correlate with ventilatory function (assessed by spirometry) or with current smoking status or total lifetime cigarette consumption. Measurement of urine desmosine may not be useful as an indirect measurement of elastolysis in cigarette smokers.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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