Individuals with impaired lung function trajectories experience a higher burden of respiratory symptoms, including wheeze and ...

“However, this made sense as the origin of COPD occurs in the small airways.” In the TAHS analysis, researchers found a link between the early low, rapid decline FEV 1 /FVC trajectory and ...

Using the Global Initiative for COPD criteria, a postbronchodilator ratio of forced expired volume in 1 s (FEV 1) to forced vital capacity (FVC) less than 0.7 is currently the accepted diagnostic ...

Following use of race-neutral lung function equations, African American and Latino pediatric patients with asthma had reductions in FEV1 and FVC while white patients with asthma had increases, ...

mean change from baseline FEV 1 at 12 wk: cilomilast +10 mL vs placebo -60 mL (p = 0.16) COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; FEV 1 = forced expiratory volume in 1 second; FVC = forced ...

Despite ongoing progress, structural racism and health disparities continue to shape health care practices in ways health ...

India: Emerging evidence highlights the potential role of serum soluble urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) ...

Blow it out, blow it out, blow it out, blow, blow, blow. Breathe deep, up, up, up, up and catch your breath He's doing a lung function test called Spirometry. Ed suffers from COPD – Chronic ...

Lung function assessment factoring in race performed poorly in flagging asthma among Black children, a study showed. The 2012 ...

In pediatric asthma, use of mesh nebulizers vs compressor nebulizers was linked to improved pulmonary function and vital signs.

Continued use of outdated race-specific equations while diagnosing children with asthma symptoms limits the identification of ...

Lung function assessment factoring in race performed ... reduced percent predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) in 41-55% of the small number of Black children with asthma or ...