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Sunday, April 15, 2007

The alcoholic lung: epidemiology, pathophysiology, and potential therapies
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 292: L813-L823, 2007

Epidemiological evidence gathered only in the past decade reveals that alcohol abuse independently increases the risk of developing the acute respiratory distress syndrome by as much as three- to fourfold.

This review focuses on the epidemiology and the pathophysiology of alcohol-induced lung dysfunction and discusses potential new treatments suggested by recent experimental findings.

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