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Spirometry Day: A Means to Enhance Social Knowledge on Respiratory Diseases

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The chapter presents the results of pulmonary function tests conducted as part of the Polish Spirometry Day of 2011, an initiative aimed at increasing the awareness of causes, symptoms, and delayed effects of common respiratory diseases, in particular of bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and at demonstrating the role of regular examinations, especially in higher risk groups. The results show that there was a relatively substantial group of persons, 11.2 % of the population sample studied, not being aware of a respiratory disease they had. Furthermore, the results show that quite often, 12.4–16.0 % of the population studied, obstruction was diagnosed in persons who did not have any spirometry tests done before, despite some respiratory symptoms that should raise the attention of general practitioners to perform such tests.

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Polish Spirometry Day 2011 was organized under the patronage of: Polish Society of Allergology, Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Military Institute of Medicine, and National Health Fund.

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  1. Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of National Defence, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland

    Piotr Dabrowiecki & Andrzej Chcialowski

  2. Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, 20 Nowowiejska Street, 00-653, Warsaw, Poland

    Artur J. Badyda, Anna Gayer & Dominika Mucha

  3. Clinic of Pulmonology, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland

    Anna Doboszynska

  4. Department of Internal Medicine and Cardiology, The Infant Jesus Teaching Hospital, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Emilia Swietlik

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Dabrowiecki, P. et al. (2013). Spirometry Day: A Means to Enhance Social Knowledge on Respiratory Diseases. In: Pokorski, M. (eds) Neurobiology of Respiration. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 788. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6627-3_31

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