Office spirometry is considered to be a ... including asthma, restrictive lung and chest wall diseases, neuromuscular diseases, and cardiac disease. When airway obstruction is identified in ...

Likewise, it makes sense to promote accurate and objective diagnostics for a disease as widespread as COPD. Spirometry assesses three dimensions of lung function: forced expiratory volume in one ...

This is based on the spirometry test result of your FEV1 ... such as asthma, a restrictive lung disease, or heart failure. Medications for COPD can reduce symptoms and cut down on flare-ups.

A new study reanalyzing spirometry data in Northeast Asian COPD patients suggests that race-neutral GLI reference equations ...

Race-neutral equations for assessing lung function appeared to catch ... the call to rethink how we distinguish between disease and normal in spirometry assessments." Indeed, the researchers ...

The risk of tuberculosis (TB) was higher in individuals with obstructive or restrictive lung function impairment compared to ...

In a large US cohort study, pre-pandemic severe obstructive lung function, as measured by spirometry ... (FEV1 < 50% of the predicted value). Restrictive physiology (FEV1/FVC ratio ≥ 0.70 ...

A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by "la Caixa" Foundation, in collaboration with the Clínic-IDIBAPS, has shown for the first time, how lung ...