Compared with spirometry, forced oscillometry better detected normal airway function in patients with asthma and better detected isolated small airway obstruction in patients with bronchial asthma, ...

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In this paper, the need for widespread use of spirometry in primary healthcare is appraised through a literature review. The added value of spirometry for and the quality of measurements made by ...

Spirometry is the nationally and internationally recommended test for diagnosing asthma and COPD. "Despite the clinical guidelines supporting the use of spirometry to identify asthma and COPD, many ...

For the first time, researchers have found that spirometry was underutilized for asthma diagnosis and management in US adults from 2001 to 2011, despite its accuracy, cost effectiveness and the ...

Evidence on clinical variation in patients with asthma is increasing, further advancing the concept of asthma phenotypes. For example, different biomarkers including eosinophils in sputum and the ...

Digital noninvasive home monitoring of children with asthma shows that a higher nocturnal heart rate is associated with worse asthma control, highlighting its potential for managing pediatric asthma.

PHOENIX -- Experts in lung diseases debated at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology here whether at-home spirometry tests and devices, which are now available ...

Collecting spirometry data remotely is done with a combination of a Bluetooth-enabled, handheld spirometer and an accompanying smartphone app that enables data collection and streaming of test results ...

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Upon implementing race-neutral equations, there was a decrease in z scores among Black children for forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1; mean difference −0.814, 95% CI −0.823 to −0.806, P<0.001 ...