Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The most impaired lung function trajectories included rapid decline. Researchers found a link between rapidly ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Following use of race-neutral lung function equations, African American and Latino pediatric ...

Spirometry test There is significant disparity in the ratios for postbronchodilator FEV1/FEV6 and FEV1/FVC %, and this disparity is very pronounced in women. Disclosure: One study author declared ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Digital Health, a group of researchers estimated forced vital capacity (FVC) (Total air exhaled after the deepest breath) and forced expiratory volume in 1 ...

Rapid decline in lung function, measured by serial spirometry, was associated with a greater incidence of heart failure and other cardiovascular disease outcomes, according to new research.

Recent studies show that many patients are being treated for COPD without confirmatory spirometry. In-office testing is easy and available. A recent study showed that only 32% of patients admitted to ...

The most recent guidelines issued by the American Thoracic Society (ATS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS) define COPD as follows [1]: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a ...

2 School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK Smoking is associated both prognostically and aetiologically with numerous diseases of the ...