A diagnosis requires a calculation involving FEV1 and another breathing measurement called forced vital capacity (FVC). FVC measures the greatest amount of air you can forcefully breathe out after ...

Race-neutral equations for assessing lung function appeared to catch more true-abnormal findings for Black patients than did ...

Supra-normal FEV1 and FVC values were identified in 14% and 9% of the cohort respectively; there was an FEV1 and FVC positive median bias (standard residual [SR]) of 0.33 and 0.60 respectively, when ...

For each patient, pre- and post-bronchodilator (BD) FEV1 and FVC values were first assessed in a pulmonary function laboratory and within a few days again in the patients' own general practice.