Race-neutral pulmonary function testing, now recommended by ATS and implemented at Boston Medical Center, has had a long road to acceptance.

SAN DIEGO – The elimination of race adjustments in lung-function testing could affect millions of people in the U.S. as they lose or gain eligibility for jobs and benefits due to reclassification of ...

Removing a patient’s race from an equation used to assess lung function — a change called for by health equity advocates — would mean that the lung disease of nearly half a million Black Americans ...

Examining a patient for common or complex pulmonary issues in a primary care setting takes time and expertise — physicians need to ask about symptoms and medical history and determine which tests to ...

Adjustment for race is discouraged in lung-function testing, but the implications of adopting race-neutral equations have not been comprehensively quantified. We obtained longitudinal data from ...

The device, known as N-Tidal Diagnose, uses carbon dioxide sensors to measure changes in a patient’s lung function with results given in minutes. Dr Simon Rudland, a GP in Suffolk, showing the N-Tidal ...

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 ...

A lung function test used to help diagnose asthma works better in the morning, becoming less reliable throughout the day, Cambridge researchers have found. Using real world data from 1,600 patients, ...

A test driven by artificial intelligence (AI) is set to be rolled out in GP surgeries to help doctors diagnose a common lung condition faster and more accurately, according to its developers. The ...