Spirometry is a standard test doctors use to determine how well your lungs function. A score that measures airflow into and out of your lungs can help diagnose COPD and determine the best treatments.

Background: Studies indicate that not all physicians in clinical practice use spirometry routinely in the diagnosis of COPD. Understanding the patterns of spirometry use across geographic regions ...

We've all felt winded when taking the stairs or dealt with a cough from time to time. But if these issues linger, they could ...

To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically use spirometry to measure your lung function. They usually also perform other tests to monitor the damage to your lungs.

Spirometry is the only recognized method of definitively diagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). 1 It also gives patients and physicians a reliable way of tracking the progression ...

If a threshold of 10% risk of COPD was used to make spirometry referrals, the addition of the polygenic risk score correctly reclassified 13.8% of COPD cases in one of the cohorts ...

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Recommendations for interpreting spirometry severity classifications ... in the same proportion for White and Black patients with COPD and are appropriately associated with clinical risk.

“Patients with mild-to-moderate COPD who have low exercise tolerance are likely to experience poor respiratory health outcomes,” the investigators concluded. “Exercise tolerance may be considered one ...

The pilot will provide 1,000 tests over the period of 18 months and will be made available across three sites in South Ayrshire. It will initially start in Girvan Community Hospital with two ...

Rates of spirometry use across VISNs. The predicted rates of spirometry use were classified into quintiles from the highest to lowest rates, then they were color coded. Quintile 1 (green ...

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