Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found, for the first time, that spirometry was underutilized for asthma diagnosis and management in U.S. adults from 2001 to ...

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 ...

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, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cough score was used to determine severity and featured questions from three validated assessments. Poorer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Patients with a known diagnosis of asthma were recruited from a pulmonary clinic and from physicians' private offices in a low-income inner city area. Patients were not selected based on their ...

Pune, Dec. 13, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to the latest trending report published by Growth Plus Reports Titled "Spirometer Market by Products (Devices, Consumables & Accessories, and Software ...

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 ...