Chronic lower respiratory diseases, namely, asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease , are the fifth-leading cause of ...

or asthma. FEV stands for forced expiratory volume, which is the air you exhale in one second. A low FEV1 suggests a breathing obstruction. FEV1 is measured during a spirometry test, also known as ...

Typically, people with suspected asthma will be offered a spirometry test, which involves taking a deep breath in, then breathing out hard and fast for as long as possible into a tube to assess ...

20 pack-years of cigarette smoking), (2) by documenting moderate-to-severe airflow limitation using a diagnostic spirometry test, and (3) by excluding heart failure and asthma as the causes of ...

"The spirometry test is exhausting. You have to have several tests and each ... "We've taught it to discriminate COPD from everything else that can look like COPD. So that's asthma, heart failure, ...

Typically, people with suspected asthma will be offered a spirometry test, which involves taking a deep breath in, then breathing out hard and fast for as long as possible into a tube to assess ...

N-Tidal is also being tested for asthma, with the hopes it will one day be used to ... underdiagnosed and misdiagnosed conditions we see in the NHS, and because spirometry testing can only be carried ...

A lung function test used to help diagnose asthma works better in the morning, becoming less reliable throughout the day, ...