Article Text
Statistics from Altmetric.com
I am writing to provide a critical commentary on the recently published article by Go et al 1 titled ‘Measuring lung diffusing capacity: an opportunity for improved medical surveillance and disability evaluation of coal miners’ in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. The authors have presented a comprehensive analysis of lung diffusing capacity (DLCO) as an additional tool for assessing lung function in coal miners, emphasising its potential to identify early physiological impairments not detectable by spirometry alone.1
The study is commendable for its large sample size, involving 3115 former coal miners, which provides a robust data …
Footnotes
Contributors SPC is the guarantor.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.