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Can you please tell me how obstructive and restrictive pulmonary disease differ?
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Airflow: Obstruction impedes flow if air out of lungs...Asthma or emphysema. Restriction means a shrinking of the lungs...Fibrosis or obesity or neuromuscular disorders.
Answered 8/29/2013
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