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 ...

Take a big deep breath in, up, up, up, up! Suck it in – blow hard! Blast out fast! Blow it out, blow it out, blow it out, blow, blow, blow. Breathe deep, up, up, up, up and catch your breath He ...

Adding a post-bronchodilator spirometry test for asthma adds about 15 min to the test time (but is not needed for COPD evaluations). Finally, the risk of an adverse effect caused by the ...

Spirometry needs to be performed by a trained individual, which is often a respiratory therapist. Due to the destructive nature of COPD on patients’ lungs and well-being, timely diagnosis is key ...

Spirometry is the only recognized method of definitively diagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). 1 It also gives patients and physicians a reliable way of tracking the progression ...

Keywords: Preserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); computed tomography imaging (CT imaging); magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) A decade ago ...