Researchers review pulmonary function testing measures that span 4 categories that can assess the respiratory muscle dysfunction that happens in diseases like spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). Muscle ...
Familial pulmonary fibrosis represented 13% of fibrotic ILD overall, with higher proportions in IPF (18%) and unclassifiable ILD (15%) than in SARD-ILD (9%). Across diagnostic subgroups, familial ...
In a recent study published in The Lancet Digital Health, a group of researchers estimated forced vital capacity (FVC) (Total air exhaled after the deepest breath) and forced expiratory volume in 1 ...
Based on a cross-sectional survey, this study aimed to measure body composition and lung function in participants, comprehensively analyze the correlation between body composition indicators and lung ...
The Social Security Administration has requested the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to review the latest published research and science and produce a report addressing best ...
The objective of this study is to assess the impact of dietary intake and supplementation of total magnesium, iron, zinc and selenium on pulmonary function in middle-aged to elderly individuals ...
The pattern of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is commonly believed to affect only smokers, is changing.