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Table 1 Age, sex and race specific coefficients used to predict FEV 1 for the equations of Hankinson et al.[18]a

From: Systematic review with meta-analysis of the epidemiological evidence relating FEV1decline to lung cancer risk

Sex

Race

Age

b0

b1

b2

b3

Male

Caucasian

<20

−0.7453

−0.04106

0.004477

0.00014098

  

20+

0.5536

−0.01303

−0.000172

0.00014098

 

African-American

<20

−0.7048

−0.05711

0.004316

0.00013194

  

20+

0.3411

−0.02309

0

0.00013194

 

Mexican-American

<20

−0.8218

−0.04248

0.004291

0.00015104

  

20+

0.6306

−0.02928

0

0.00015104

Female

Caucasian

<18

−0.8710

0.06537

0

0.00011496

  

18+

0.4333

−0.00361

−0.000194

0.00011496

 

African-American

<18

−0.9630

0.05799

0

0.00010846

  

18+

0.3433

−0.01283

−0.000097

0.00010846

 

Mexican-American

<18

−0.9641

0.06490

0

0.00012154

  

18+

0.4529

−0.01178

−0.000113

0.00012154

  1. a The equation is of the form: FEV1 (predicted) = b0 + b1 age(years) + b2 age(years)2 + b3 height(cm)2. The coefficients are taken from Tables 4 and 5 of Hankinson et al.[18].
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