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Frank E. Speizer
Researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital
Publications - 641
Citations - 140522
Frank E. Speizer is an academic researcher from Brigham and Women's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Relative risk & Risk factor. The author has an hindex of 193, co-authored 636 publications receiving 135891 citations. Previous affiliations of Frank E. Speizer include Medical Research Council & Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Respiratory Symptoms in Urban Hispanic and Non-Hispanic White Women
TL;DR: It is suggested that chronic wheeze syndromes are common among young urban women and are associated with both active smoking and a parental history of asthma, in contrast to those from Puerto Rico.
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Task Force on Research and Education for the Prevention and Control of Respiratory Diseases.
N. H. Edelman,Robert M. Kaplan,A. S. Buist,A. B. Cohen,Hoffman La,Kleinhenz Me,G. L. Snider,Frank E. Speizer +7 more
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Comparison of questionnaire and diary methods in acute childhood respiratory illness surveillance.
TL;DR: Standardization of an acute respiratory illness questionnaire would provide greater opportunity than use of diaries for synthesis of prospective data from different epidemiologic studies.
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The association of airways responsiveness to respiratory symptom prevalence and to pulmonary function in a random population sample.
TL;DR: It is concluded that airways responsiveness may be an important factor in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Overview and Summary
TL;DR: The workshop participants concluded that as opportunities for the intervention in the series of COPD disorders develop, greater efforts will be required to train and encourage health care providers in the use of physiological and biochemical markers of disease.