Compared with spirometry, forced oscillometry better detected normal airway function in patients with asthma and better detected isolated small airway obstruction in patients with bronchial asthma, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A cough score was used to determine severity and featured questions from three validated assessments. Poorer ...

In this paper, the need for widespread use of spirometry in primary healthcare is appraised through a literature review. The added value of spirometry for and the quality of measurements made by ...

A spirometer tests the amount of air coming out of your lungs and how fast it comes out to diagnose asthma. Unlike a spirometer, an exhaled nitric oxide test machine measures the nitric oxide in your ...

An innovative primary care-based asthma program improves identification of poorly controlled asthma among children and enhances treatment plans, compared to care provided during routine office visits, ...

For the first time, researchers have found that spirometry was underutilized for asthma diagnosis and management in US adults from 2001 to 2011, despite its accuracy, cost effectiveness and the ...

Asthma may be overdiagnosed in countries like Canada, suggests a longitudinal study of 540 obese and non-obese adults that found approximately one third of Canadians with physician-diagnosed asthma do ...

Physical inactivity has long been common among children with asthma due to fears of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB ...

I used to think asthma was a condition you either had or didn’t, and that it was typically diagnosed in childhood. That changed when I was diagnosed with asthma in my 50s. I’m not alone. In the United ...

Asthma is one of the most common chronic respiratory diseases among children, affecting nearly 475 million globally. For decades, exercise was discouraged due to the risk of triggering wheezing and ...

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