Methods The study population included patients with mild to moderate COPD, aged ≥35 years, with a smoking history, who were followed up for ≥3 years from first to last spirometry recording ... with a ...

However, spirometry is often underutilized, especially in women, whose symptoms may not be viewed as an indicator that further pulmonary evaluation is needed, but instead are often dismissed as ...

This study aimed to assess the feasibility and reliability of home spirometry in children with moderate asthma and to compare home-based lung function measurements with those obtained under clinical ...

Skolnik said, “For example, pulmonary function tests like spirometry are very helpful in gaining insight as to whether someone has active respiratory disease.” Diagnosing pulmonary disorders ...

2 Center for Molecular and Human Genetics, Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA 3 The Heart Center and Center for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research ... have ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — A new diagnostic schema incorporating chest CT and respiratory symptoms into the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary ... COPD that incorporates spirometry, symptoms ...

For initial treatment of symptomatic pulmonary sarcoidosis ... in similar to the 5-percentage point variability inherent to spirometry. "Without a placebo group, the natural variability in ...

Methods All births from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (n=14 049) who had lung spirometry at 8–9 years of age (n=6705) and/or 14–17 years of age (n=4508) were divided into four ...