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If you are in hospital and get spirometry when you have cold, will that return an incorrect result?
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Cold: If it's really just a cold (affecting nose and nasal pharynx), spirometry which measures lower respiratory passages (lungs and bronchi) will not be affected.
Answered 3/26/2013
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