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.

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The ability to predict spirometry-defined COPD was significantly better when a modified lung function questionnaire score was ...

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 be early signs of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). If you have ...

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.

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 ...

Identifying individuals with undiagnosed COPD and intervening can improve outcomes, but several barriers exist to performing the confirmatory test—i.e. spirometry (a test for lung function that ...

Researchers at Harvard Medical School set out to elucidate the molecular basis for sex-specific differences in COPD onset and severity. Recommendations for interpreting spirometry severity ...

A total of 5,039 eligible patients (3,559 commercial, 347 Medicaid, and 1,403 Medicare) with a new diagnosis of COPD during the study period were identified ( Table 1). Sixty-five percent of ...

But if these issues linger, they could be early signs of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). If you have breathing trouble you can’t seem to shake, you may be wondering how to test ...