Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of race-specific lung function equations resulted in misclassification of patients with ILD eligible for ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Some Black smokers had worse COPD classification after use of race-neutral vs. race-specific lung function ...
Using race-neutral rather than race and ethnicity-specific reference equations to interpret pulmonary function tests (PFTs) increased the number of Black individuals considered to have respiratory ...
Race-neutral equations identified twice as many Black children with asthma or asthma symptoms, in comparison to race-specific equations. HealthDay News — Using a race-neutral equation identifies more ...
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Omitting race from lung function equations increases detection of asthma in Black children, study shows
Despite ongoing progress, structural racism and health disparities continue to shape health care practices in ways health care providers may not even realize. A recent study in JAMA Network Open, ...
The 2012 GLI race-specific equation failed to detect reduced lung function in 39% of Black children participating in three large cohorts. The 2022 GLI race-neutral equation identified two- to ...
Aparna Balasubramanian, MD, assistant professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and attendee of the CHEST Annual Meeting 2023, talks about the necessity of challenging measurements like ...
Credit: Getty Images The road to race-neutral pulmonary function testing has been long and evolving; now, ATS recommends this approach and a Boston hospital offers an implementation model. In July, ...
SAN DIEGO — Several studies presented here at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology (AAAAI)/World Allergy Organization 2025 Annual Meeting solidify the case that race-neutral ...
We read with interest the article of Hughes et al. on the development of a specific equation for calculating fat-free mass (FFM) in Australian aboriginal people and the validation of this equation ...
Despite ongoing progress, structural racism and health disparities continue to shape healthcare practices in ways healthcare providers may not even realize. A recent study in JAMA Network Open, ...
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