Congratulations to our group member, Robert Gregg, for the acceptance of his first author paper in PLoS Medicine. His paper
is entitled “Identification of Factors Directly Linked to Incident Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Causal Graph Modeling Study”. In this study, Robert identified clinical and imaging factors that are directly linked to the development of future spirometric lung function decline. Such lung abnormalities can be facilitated as reduction in FEV1/FVC ratio or reduction in FEV1 %predicted with preservation of the FEV1/FVC ratio. Robert’s analysis identified factors that are linked to both or only to one of those abnormalities.
Paper availability: [journal web site]
Congratulations to Robert!