Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a multicenter, longitudinal cohort study, Regan and colleagues evaluated 10,198 current/former smokers with a ...

Spirometry test There is significant disparity in the ratios for postbronchodilator FEV1/FEV6 and FEV1/FVC %, and this disparity is very pronounced in women. Disclosure: One study author declared ...

The guideline-recommended FEV1:FVC value of less than 0.70 is the optimal cutoff for the diagnosis of clinically significant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers say. The study, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN DIEGO — Following use of race-neutral lung function equations, African American and Latino pediatric ...

Supported by an independent educational grant from Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer. Mrs. Sweet is a 51-year-old woman who presents to your office with the chief complaint of shortness of breath and ...

The 70% ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second to forced vital capacity proved as or more accurate than other thresholds for predicting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)–related ...

Recent studies show that many patients are being treated for COPD without confirmatory spirometry. In-office testing is easy and available. A recent study showed that only 32% of patients admitted to ...

Two abstracts presented at the American Thoracic Society 2024 International Conference analyzed the phase 3 LIBERTY COPD BOREAS trial, finding that dupilumab improves pre- and post-bronchodilator lung ...

The underdiagnosed and poor management of COPD exacerbations represents a missed opportunity to prevent patient deterioration through proactive treatment approaches. Chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

—Physiologic changes apparent well before the onset of clinical COPD may help to predict smokers in whom COPD eventually develops—and can be detected by routine spirometry. Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, ...