Pulmonary function was significantly associated with frailty in community-dwelling older adults over a 5-year period, as indicated from data from more than 1000 individuals. The pulmonary function ...

Credit: Getty Images The road to race-neutral pulmonary function testing has been long and evolving; now, ATS recommends this approach and a Boston hospital offers an implementation model. In July, ...

Pulmonary function testing serves 2 important clinical goals: (1) categorizing the physiologic impairment from lung disease (ie, obstructive, restrictive, etc) and (2) quantifying the degree of ...

Measuring lung function earlier in life would help identify people at risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Full pulmonary function tests contribute useful diagnostic information for evaluating patients with ...

For decades, clinical algorithms that were used to diagnose disease have included race as a variable. Over the past several years, growing recognition that this may lead to diagnoses being entirely ...

More than 100 therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis are being developed across the globe. IPF is a chronic and progressive lung disease that affects the tissue surrounding the air sacs in the ...

A newly reported case study has documented a novel nonsense variant in the RTEL1 gene in a patient with familial pulmonary fibrosis (PF), adding to an expanding understanding of how telomere-related ...

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