Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Following use of race-neutral lung function equations, African American and Latino pediatric ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Breathing training plus aerobic training improved FEV 1 and FVC in adults with asthma. Participating in yoga ...

Hypercapnic patients were best separated from normocapnic patients using thresholds for FVC% of 56% predicted and 33% predicted for FEV1%. Hypercapnia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

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 ...

Better lung function, expressed as higher forced vital capacity (FVC), is associated with a reduced risk for the onset of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke over a follow-up period of approximately ...

A significant percentage of Black men found to have normal lung function after race-based adjustments to spirometry were actually found to have emphysema on their computed tomography (CT) scans, ...

In a large US cohort study, pre-pandemic severe obstructive lung function, as measured by spirometry, was linked to more than a twofold increased risk for severe COVID-19. Researchers analyzed the ...

Patients with type 2 diabetes and comorbid lung function impairment had higher risks for cardiovascular disease and mortality. Individuals with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and comorbid lung function ...