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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Black patients’ lung allocation scores were lower using a race-specific vs. race-neutral equation. Race-neutral ...

The most important goal when performing and interpreting spirometry tests is to minimise misinterpretation rates. The reason for performing spirometry (and all other diagnostic tests) is to inform ...

Interpreting spirometry with race-specific reference equations led to a lower Lung Allocation Score (LAS) for Black patients and higher LAS among White patients, which could potentially contribute to ...

September 17, 2009 (Vienna, Austria) — Significant efforts to help general practitioners (GPs) improve their ability to diagnose and manage asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have ...

The American Thoracic Society now recommends use of average reference equations rather than those based on race or ethnicity for the assessment of pulmonary function in clinical and laboratory ...

Quality improvement, standardisation of spirometry testing, and interpretation of results are critically important in the occupational setting. Every day we encounter several workers who are referred ...

—Researchers reexamined data from the CARDIA study and found that using race-based spirometry equations led to a disproportionate underrecognition of impaired respiratory health in Black Americans ...

A secondary data analysis of the CARDIA (Coronary Artery Risk Development In Young Adults) Lung study found that emphysema is often detectable on CT scan before spirometry findings become abnormal.

Upon implementing race-neutral equations, there was a decrease in z scores among Black children for forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1; mean difference −0.814, 95% CI −0.823 to −0.806, P<0.001 ...