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

1 More than 50% of adults with low pulmonary function are not aware that they have COPD 2 and nearly two-thirds of patients with COPD have never had a spirometry test. 1 Without spirometry ...

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 one has a gap of five ... "We've taught it to discriminate COPD from everything else that can look like COPD. So that's ...

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 ...

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 diagnose the condition once research trials are complete. Dr Simon Rudland, a GP in Suffolk, hailed the test as a ...

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