In health, the flow rate then decreases steadily until all air has been exhaled (on the graph the flow rate merges smoothly with the horizontal axis at FVC, Fig 2). Conditions producing restrictive ...

Further, only half of the primary care physicians correctly interpreted spirometry results in a standardized clinical vignette. The findings appear online in the September issue of Pediatrics.

Therapeutic management was the focus of another AAAAI poster addressing the impact of race-based spirometry in 2076 children enrolled in Inner-City Asthma Consortium studies between 2002 and 2015.