Due to the destructive nature of COPD on patients’ lungs and well-being, timely diagnosis is key, and integrating spirometry at the time of lung cancer screening could help identify this disease early ...

They included 1262 participants with PRISm, defined as those with a postbronchodilator FEV1 < 80% predicted and FEV1/FVC ≥ 0.7, and 4494 participants with normal spirometry, defined as those ...