Comorbid lung function impairment was associated with increased risks for cardiovascular disease and mortality in type 2 diabetes.
Harms of race-specific lung function calculations extend to asthma and treatment, particularly in Black children.
Similarly, African American and Latino pediatric patients experienced drops in FVC z scores with use of race-neutral spirometry equations (median change, –0.966 and –0.548), whereas this ...
Abstract: Preserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm ... as confirmed by a specific lung function test (FEV1/FVC ratio above 0.70). PRISm is identified when the FEV1/FVC ratio remains ≥0.7 ...
Exclusive Over half of ICSs do not have enough spirometry testing capacity to meet demand, new research by a lung health charity has found. In a survey conducted by Asthma+Lung UK, 16 out of the 27 ...
Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Spirometry was first invented in the 1840s by an English surgeon called John Hutchinson, who realised that lung volume ...
Spirometry-defined COPD in middle-aged individuals ... Further, more individuals from the two most impaired rapid decline FEV 1 /FVC trajectory groups first reported wheeze vs.
The criteria for the diagnosis of COPD is a post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC ratio of < 70% (absolute value). Spirometry technique Spirometric patterns Baseline spirometry: the nurse responsible for ...
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