Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Full pulmonary function tests contribute useful diagnostic information for evaluating patients with ...

The use of newly developed race-neutral reference equations for pulmonary function test (PFT) interpretation led to a significant increase in both the prevalence and severity of respiratory ...

Northwest Specialty Hospital’s Pulmonology clinic offers comprehensive treatment and diagnostic services for pulmonary diseases, including the Pulmonary Function Test. This test measures lung function ...

Good breathing is at the heart of good health. When asthma or shortness of breath appears, a person might be sent for pulmonary function tests. Arlene Dunlap of Piscataway, N.J. knows those tests well ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a new study, removing “race correction” from the interpretation of pulmonary function test results signaled ...

Credit: Getty Images The road to race-neutral pulmonary function testing has been long and evolving; now, ATS recommends this approach and a Boston hospital offers an implementation model. In July, ...

NEW YORK, NY – March 02, 2022 – In the latest update to the pulmonary function tests technical standard series, the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society address the uncertainty ...

Body plethysmography is testing that's done to determine how much air your lungs can hold. It goes by other names, too, such as pulmonary plethysmography, static lung volume determination, or ...

For decades, clinical algorithms that were used to diagnose disease have included race as a variable. Over the past several years, growing recognition that this may lead to diagnoses being entirely ...

Removing a patient’s race from an equation used to assess lung function — a change called for by health equity advocates — would mean that the lung disease of nearly half a million Black Americans ...