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Clinical Characteristics and Medical Utilization of Smokers with Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry [Response to Letter]
Yune-Young Shin,1 Sojung Park,1 Kyung Joo Kim,2 Chin Kook Rhee,2 Kwang Ha Yoo,3 Ki-Suck Jung,4 Jin Hwa Lee1
1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 2Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 3Division of Pulmonary and Allergy Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 4Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University Medical School, Anyang, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Correspondence: Jin Hwa Lee, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, Ewha Womans University, 25 Magokdong-ro 2-gil Gangseo-gu, Seoul, 07804, Republic of Korea, Tel +82 2 6986 1631, Fax +82 2-2655-2076, Email [email protected]
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This is in response to the Letter to the Editor
Dear editor
We would like to thank Hammad for the letter regarding our paper.
We agree with your opinion on several limitations of this study, such as the lack of post-bronchodilator spirometry, comorbidities, cross-sectional nature of the study, lack of information about medication compliance, and recruiting patients who never smoked. Therefore, we already mentioned about these limitations in our paper. We would appreciate it if you could look at the results of the paper with these limitations in mind.
We thank the author of the letter to the editor for taking the time to review our study.
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The authors report no conflicts of interest in this communication.
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