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The nurse is assessing an 80-year-old patient who has no underlying respiratory pathology but whose carbon dioxide level is slightly elevated. The nurse would contribute this increase to which changes associated with normal aging?

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1. Increase in alveolar–capillary membrane thins
2. Increase in total lung surface area
3. Increase in size of the airways
4. Increase in air trapping
5. Overgrowth of alveoli

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