New GOLD guidelines recommend using pre-bronchodilator spirometry to rule out COPD and post-bronchodilator measurements to ...

Interstitial lung abnormalities are more prevalent in individuals with PRISm, and those with PRISm and ILAs have higher all-cause mortality.

25, 2024 — A new method of scanning lungs is able to show in real time how air moves in and out of the lungs as people take a breath in patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Comorbid lung function impairment was associated with increased risks for cardiovascular disease and mortality in type 2 diabetes.

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR), including breath control exercises, can improve lung function in long COVID patients after only 4 to 8 weeks, according to a study in Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory ...

The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, or GOLD, COPD exacerbation history groups were “mediocre” in ...

Harms of race-specific lung function calculations extend to asthma and treatment, particularly in Black children.

individuals with pre- and postbronchodilator FEV 1 /FVC<0.70 and FEV 1 reversibility <12% and <200 mL and with self-reported diagnosis of asthma. COPD: individuals with pre- and post-bronchodilator ...

Despite ongoing progress, structural racism and health disparities continue to shape healthcare practices in ways healthcare providers may not even realize.

SAN DIEGO — Following use of race-neutral lung function equations, African American and Latino pediatric patients with asthma had reductions in FEV 1 and FVC while white patients with asthma had ...

Children found to have abnormal lung function go on to further diagnostic testing. Importantly, the FEV1 and FVC testing results in a percentage value compared to expected lung function.