Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Emphysema is often present before spirometry findings become abnormal, with disproportionate rates seen in Black ...

—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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

—Physiologic changes apparent well before the onset of clinical COPD may help to predict smokers in whom COPD eventually develops—and can be detected by routine spirometry. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, ...

Treatment-free interval (TFI) after first-line therapy (FLT) and disease control rate (DCR) on second-line therapy (SLT): Impact on overall survival (OS) in relapsed malignant pleural mesothelioma ...

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 ...