Researchers in Sweden conducted a real-world clinical study involving 123 participants (mean age, 33 years; 67% females) with asthma-like symptoms to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of dynamic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Differences in small airway dysfunction persisted despite similarities in spirometry. Patients in one of the ...

A recent review article, "Clinical Tools to Assess Asthma Control in Children," [1] collates multiple subjective and objective measures that clinicians can use to determine whether a patient has ...

What Are Pulmonary Function Tests? To diagnose asthma, your doctor will review your symptoms, your medical and family history, and may do lung function tests (also called pulmonary function tests).

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 ...

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 ...

Two lung disease experts had a "lively" debate at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI), where they each took a position on the pro and con side of whether ...

What Are Pulmonary Function Tests (PFTs)? Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are lung tests. They show how well your lungs work. They’re noninvasive, which means that the doctor doesn’t cut you or put ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...