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Comment on ‘Measuring lung diffusing capacity: an opportunity for improved medical surveillance and disability evaluation of coal miners’
  1. Sultan Pinar Cetintepe,
  2. Mustafa Necmi Ilhan
  1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Public Health, Division of Occupational Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sultan Pinar Cetintepe, Public Health, Division of Occupational Medicine, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey; pinarcetintepe{at}gazi.edu.tr

https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2024-109720

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    I am writing to provide a critical commentary on the recently published article by Go et al1 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 …

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    • 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.

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