FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, particularly to pulmonology. Invention is a method for early diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including the mucociliary clearance in the remission phase of the pathological process and recording the stable decrease in the clearance rate by 1/3 of the lower limit of the normal values in the presence of risk factors, It differs by the fact that bronchial adhesion is additionally evaluated dynamically, and at its normal level the morphological examination of bronchial epithelium is performed and this pathology is diagnosed.
EFFECT: method provides higher accuracy and reduced length of diagnosis of COPD.
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