A pulmonologist discusses the history and influence of race-based reference equations in pulmonary function testing interpretation and patient care.

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 ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO – The elimination of race adjustments in lung-function testing could affect millions of people in the U.S. as they lose or gain eligibility for jobs and benefits due to reclassification of ...

Continuing the race adjustment factors maintains health care disparities, the authors noted. The authors wrote that adjusting spirometry values stems from old studies about differences in lung ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have scarring in your lungs, you may have been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. When the reason for this scarring is unknown, your condition is called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). You ...

Italy: A new cross-sectional study published in Respiratory Research has highlighted a significant association between vertebral fractures and impaired lung function in patients with ...