Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Black children had lower FEV 1 and FVC percent predicted after race-neutral vs. -specific equation use. Black vs ...

The American Thoracic Society now recommends use of average reference equations rather than those based on race or ethnicity for the assessment of pulmonary function in clinical and laboratory ...

A woman presents with exertional dyspnea, wheezing, and intermittent dry cough, which has been ongoing for over the past 10 ...

Removing race from equations that estimate lung function will shift the categorization of disease severity across patient populations, moving more Black individuals into an advanced disease category, ...

Share on Pinterest More than 30 million people in the U.S. smoke cigarettes, according to the CDC. Westend61/Getty Images A new study finds that millions of current or former smokers have impaired ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This study included adults in Nepal, Peru and Uganda. Discriminative performance improved after adding ...

Millions of Americans with tobacco-related lung disease have symptoms that do not fit any existing tobacco-related disease criteria – including the most common of those, chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Young adults who vape regularly have significant cardiopulmonary abnormalities during exercise and impaired pulmonary vascular responsiveness.

Natera, Inc., a global leader in cell-free DNA and precision medicine, today announced the publication of a new prospective clinical trial in Transplantation Direct . The study, which was conducted by ...