Despite these benefits, most physicians in clinical practice rely only on history and clinical examination to make a diagnosis of OAD and to start pharmacotherapy. 4 This approach leads to both ...

In this paper, the need for widespread use of spirometry in primary healthcare is appraised through a literature review. The added value of spirometry for and the quality of measurements made by ...

Introduction: The purpose of the study was to establish spirometric reference values for a Central Asian population of highlanders and lowlanders. Methods: Spirometries from a population-based ...

Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

Introduction Asthma remains diagnostically challenging, with up to one-third of patients labelled as asthmatic without supportive evidence of obstructive or reversible spirometry. The COVID-19 ...

ATS 2024, San Diego – Equations that don’t use racially and ethnically adjusted spirometry results to help determine eligibility for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) clinical trials may ...

Introduction Remote monitoring of pulse oximetry and spirometry has been proposed as an alternative to hospital based measurements for monitoring patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). We ...

Introduction Although spirometry has been available for decades, it is underused in paediatric practice, other than in specialist clinics. This is unsurprising as there is limited evidence on the ...

1 School of Nursing, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China 2 Department of Pediatrics, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China Background: To evaluate ...