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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2006 Oct 17.
Published in final edited form as: Anal Chim Acta. 2006 Mar 15;562(2):229–235. doi: 10.1016/j.aca.2006.01.065

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical data of the study subjects

Chrome plating workers
Number of subjects 10
Sex (M/F) 10/0
Age (years) 39.3 ± 7.3
Smokers/ex-smokers/non-smokers 1/0/9
FVC (% predicted) 91.2 ± 8.3
FEV1 (% predicted) 92.5 ± 9.1
FEV1/FVC (%) 83.4 ± 9.2

The pulmonary parameters and age are expressed as mean values ± S.D. FVC: forced expiratory vital capacity; FEV1: forced expiratory volume in 1 s.