Prevalence of PRISm and COPD and associated factors in a university medical centre spirometry unit: a cross-sectional analysis
Zeina Akiki, Emilio Khoueiry, Elissa Smayra, Antonio Nader, Karen El Teress, Caren Safi, Imad El Ashkar, Ali Majed, Ali Fawaz, Pascale Salameh, Dany Gaspard · 2026
Read Prevalence of PRISm and COPD and associated factors in a university medical centre spirometry unit: a cross-sectional analysis by Zeina Akiki, Emilio Khoueiry, Elissa Smayra, Antonio Nader, Karen El Teress, Caren Safi, Imad El Ashkar, Ali Majed, Ali Fawaz, Pascale Salameh, Dany Gaspard (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13264919.txt.
Description
Akiki and a large team counted in twenty twenty-six how common two lung test types are at a Lebanese care site. One type, called PRISm, shows a low breath out with a kept ratio of two breath scores. The other is a long-term lung block ill, COPD, with a low ratio.
They read near seven hundred tests from adults aged forty and up from twenty twenty-two to twenty twenty-four. The PRISm type came up in about one in nine tests, and COPD in about one in six. Both types rose with age and with past smoke use. COPD also tied to low body weight score.
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| CREATOR | Zeina Akiki, Emilio Khoueiry, Elissa Smayra, Antonio Nader, Karen El Teress, Caren Safi, Imad El Ashkar, Ali Majed, Ali Fawaz, Pascale Salameh, Dany Gaspard |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |