NEW YORK, NY – March 02, 2022 – In the latest update to the pulmonary function tests technical standard series, the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society address the uncertainty ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a new study, removing “race correction” from the interpretation of pulmonary function test results signaled ...

Veterans Affairs department officials said Monday they have launched a study to determine how removing race from widely used lung function tests may affect disability benefits for veterans, and they ...

Removing race from equations that estimate lung function will shift the categorization of disease severity across patient populations, moving more Black individuals into an advanced disease category, ...

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 ...

Emphysema is missed more often in Black Americans than in White Americans, and now researchers report they have figured out why. The investigators found that many Black men who were considered to have ...