Spirometry

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A mathematical model for spirometry. 
  • Acceptability and repeatability of spirometry in children using updated ATS/ERS criteria. 
  • Age and African-American race impact the validity and reliability of the asthma control test in persistent asthmatics. 
  • Air pollution effects on ventilatory function of US schoolchildren. Results of studies in Cincinnati, Chattanooga, and New York. 
  • Airway obstruction is common but unsuspected in patients admitted to a general medicine service. 
  • Altered pituitary-adrenal interaction in nocturnal asthma. 
  • Ambient particulate matter and lung function growth in Chinese children. 
  • Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis care and research in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and opportunities. 
  • Are lung disease and function related to age-related macular degeneration? 
  • Association of Ozone Exposure With Cardiorespiratory Pathophysiologic Mechanisms in Healthy Adults. 
  • Asthma outcomes: pulmonary physiology. 
  • Body mass index-percentile and diagnostic accuracy of childhood asthma. 
  • Bronchial reactivity of healthy subjects: 18-20 h postexposure to ozone. 
  • Byssinosis in a nontextile worker. 
  • Clinical and Radiologic Disease in Smokers With Normal Spirometry. 
  • Congenital tracheal stenosis masquerading as asthma in an adolescent: the value of spirometry. 
  • Cumulative exposure to CD8+ granzyme Bhi T cells is associated with reduced lung function early after lung transplantation. 
  • Cystic fibrosis pulmonary guidelines: pulmonary complications: hemoptysis and pneumothorax. 
  • Decompression induced nitrogen elimination. 
  • Delivery efficiency of an Elekta linac under gated operation. 
  • Differential aerosol challenge studies in byssinosis. 
  • Diffusing Capacity of Carbon Monoxide in Assessment of COPD. 
  • Does the clinical examination predict airflow limitation? 
  • Dose response studies in cotton textile workers. 
  • Effects of age and exercise on physiological dead space during simulated dives at 2.8 ATA. 
  • Effects of physical activity on exercise tests and respiratory function. 
  • Emphysema, airflow limitation, and early age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Enlarged Dural Sac in Idiopathic Bronchiectasis Implicates Heritable Connective Tissue Gene Variants. 
  • Eosinophilic and Noneosinophilic Asthma. 
  • Epidemiology, genetics, and subtyping of preserved ratio impaired spirometry (PRISm) in COPDGene. 
  • Evaluation before and after exposure--the pattern of physiological response to cotton dust. 
  • Exercise outcomes after pulmonary rehabilitation depend on the initial mechanism of exercise limitation among non-oxygen-dependent COPD patients. 
  • Exertional dyspnea in heart failure: a symptom unrelated to pulmonary function at rest or during exercise. Duke University Clinical Cardiology Studies (DUCCS) Exercise Group. 
  • Forced vital capacity and not central chemoreflex predicts maximal hyperoxic breath-hold duration in elite apneists. 
  • Fundoplication after lung transplantation prevents the allograft dysfunction associated with reflux. 
  • General considerations for lung function testing. 
  • Genetic susceptibility for chronic bronchitis in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Genome-wide association analysis identifies six new loci associated with forced vital capacity. 
  • Genotype tailored treatment of mild symptomatic acid reflux in children with uncontrolled asthma (GenARA): Rationale and methods. 
  • Health-related quality of life of persons with sarcoidosis. 
  • High attenuation areas on chest computed tomography in community-dwelling adults: the MESA study. 
  • Human corticotropin-releasing hormone improves overnight FEV1 in nocturnal asthma. 
  • Impact of forced vital capacity loss on survival after the onset of chronic lung allograft dysfunction. 
  • Improvement in pulmonary function following smoking cessation. 
  • Impulse oscillometry identifies peripheral airway dysfunction in children with adenosine deaminase deficiency. 
  • Is there a role for screening spirometry? 
  • Longitudinal Phenotypes and Mortality in Preserved Ratio Impaired Spirometry in the COPDGene Study. 
  • Longitudinal decline in lung function among older construction workers. 
  • Nutrigenetic response to omega-3 fatty acids in obese asthmatics (NOOA): rationale and methods. 
  • Obesity in children with poorly controlled asthma: Sex differences. 
  • Observations on man in an oxygen-helium environment at 380 mm. Hg total pressure. II. Respiratory. 
  • Occupational asthma symptoms and respiratory function among aerial pesticide applicators. 
  • Perception of pulmonary function and asthma control: the differential role of child versus caregiver anxiety and depression. 
  • Perceptual cues used to reproduce an inspired lung volume. 
  • Phenotype of Spirometric Impairment in an Aging Population. 
  • Phenotype of normal spirometry in an aging population. 
  • Prediction of peak flow values followed by feedback improves perception of lung function and adherence to inhaled corticosteroids in children with asthma. 
  • Prediction of postoperative lung function in patients with lung cancer: comparison of quantitative CT with perfusion scintigraphy. 
  • Preoperative exercise Vo2 measurement for lung resection candidates: results of Cancer and Leukemia Group B Protocol 9238. 
  • Preprocessing cotton to prevent byssinosis. 
  • Quantitative assessments from the clinical examination. How should clinicians integrate the numerous results? 
  • Relationship between quantitative CT metrics and health status and BODE in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Respiratory health of automobile workers and exposures to metal-working fluid aerosols: lung spirometry. 
  • Risk indexes for exacerbations and hospitalizations due to COPD. 
  • Screening for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. 
  • Severity of emphysema predicts location of lung cancer and 5-y survival of patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Significance of and risk factors for the development of central airway stenosis after lung transplantation. 
  • Six-minute walk distance predictors, including CT scan measures, in the COPDGene cohort. 
  • Six-minute-walk distance and accelerometry predict outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease independent of Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2011 Group. 
  • Spirometric changes in normal children with upper respiratory infections. 
  • Spirometry for the diagnosis and management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Standardisation of spirometry. 
  • Standardization of Spirometry, 1994 Update. American Thoracic Society. 
  • Surgical correction of gastroesophageal reflux in lung transplant patients is associated with decreased effector CD8 cells in lung lavages: a case series. 
  • The American Association for Respiratory Care and the National Lung Health Education Program: assuring quality in spirometry. 
  • The association of systemic microvascular changes with lung function and lung density: a cross-sectional study. 
  • The effect of salmeterol on nocturnal symptoms, airway function, and inflammation in asthma. 
  • Theophylline's effect on neutrophil function and the late asthmatic response. 
  • Therapeutic bronchoscopy improves spirometry, quality of life, and survival in central airway obstruction. 
  • Using Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI to Quantify the Pulmonary Ventilation Distribution. 
  • Validation of alternate modes of administration of the lung function questionnaire (LFQ) in subjects with smoking history. 
  • Validation of spirometry prediction equations in western Kenya. 
  • Volume-controlled lung lavage in the treatment of asthma, bronchiectasis, and mucoviscidosis.