Pulmonary function tests, he said, have no gold standard or new data analyses and are affected by a wide variety of factors including ancestry, poverty, and air pollution, making the issue far ...

Background Pulmonary function testing provides important insight regarding health; the vital capacity (VC) is so named because of its association with survival and longevity. Interpretation of ...

Historically, physicians in the U.S. expected Black people to have lower lung function, so algorithms that analyze spirometer data have corrected for this by using a different scale.

A lung function test used to help diagnose asthma works better in the morning, becoming less reliable throughout the day, researchers have found. Using real world data from 1,600 patients ...

A lung function test used to help diagnose asthma works better in the morning, becoming less reliable throughout the day, Cambridge researchers have found. Using real world data from 1,600 ...