With some conditions, like asthma, your ratio may improve after using a bronchodilator. The FEV1/FVC ratio indicates how much air you can forcefully exhale. It's measured by spirometry, a test used to ...

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This may be readily induced with intensive bronchodilator or steroid (cortisone, cortisol, prednisone or prednisolone) therapy, singly or in combination. This, we believe, is one of the essential ...

Discriminative performance improved after adding sex-specific pre-bronchodilator peak expiratory flow to St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire score. When spirometry is unavailable, physicians ...

A study that Henry Ford Health researchers conducted on the impact of spirometry race correction on preadolescent Black and white children in Detroit found that race neutral-spirometry was twice as ...

The following is a summary of “Effect of a post-bronchodilator FEV 1 /FVC < 0.7 on COPD diagnosis and treatment: a regression discontinuity design,” published in the April 2025 issue of Respiratory ...

It may seem harder to lose weight when you have irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). That's because some of the foods associated with a healthful diet—such as those high in fiber—may aggravate symptoms of ...

Abstract: Spirometry plays a key role in diagnosing respiratory diseases, but its accuracy often falls short of clinical expectations. While deep learning models have shown promise in automating ...

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New GOLD guidelines recommend using pre-bronchodilator spirometry to rule out COPD and post-bronchodilator measurements to confirm a COPD diagnosis. For decades, the Global Initiative for Chronic ...