Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The likelihood for cardiovascular disease increased with impaired vs. normal spirometry findings. Individuals ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Several European studies have investigated integrating spirometry at the time of low-dose CT. Spirometry needs ...

The drawback of this study is that it was performed in a single urban center. The availability of trained personnel to conduct the test was not discussed as an issue, nor was the potential cost to the ...

New study findings call into question the necessity of spirometry as a criterion for participation in palliative care research among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Quality ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

An emphysema diagnosis typically involves a comprehensive review of the person’s medical history, including symptoms, risk factors, and existing medical conditions, to differentiate it from similar ...

—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 ...

“Emphysema is usually a description of images — CT scan or X-ray — and is only one part of the disease of COPD,” says Uddalak Majumdar, MD, pulmonologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. COPD is ...

All of them can make you feel breathless. Doctors use stages to describe how severe your COPD is. This system is called the GOLD staging or grading system. Your grade will affect what treatment you ...