Residual volume/total lung capacity ratio confers limited additive significance to lung clearance index for assessment of adults with bronchiectasis

• Wei-jie Guan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chenrc@vip.163.com (RCC); battery203@.163.com (WJG)

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, Sino-French Hoffmann Institute, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5463-391X

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• Jing-jing Yuan,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Yan Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Hui-min Li,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Rong-chang Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chenrc@vip.163.com (RCC); battery203@.163.com (WJG)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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• Nan-shan Zhong

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Disease, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

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