The American Journal of Managed Care

Study Links Lung Function, Education, Area of Residence as Predictors of COPD Diagnostic Delay

Investigators detected potential predictors reducing a patients’ ability to receive an early diagnosis for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), including poorer lung function, lower education ...
Healio

Full pulmonary function tests important to determine spectrum of vaping-related lung injury

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Full pulmonary function tests contribute useful diagnostic information for evaluating patients with ...
STAT

Removing race adjustment from lung test could mean higher disability payments for Black vets

Removing a patient’s race from an equation used to assess lung function — a change called for by health equity advocates — would mean that the lung disease of nearly half a million Black Americans ...
Business Wire

New Data Presented at CHEST 2022 Reinforce Clinical Value of Veracyte’s Genomic Tests in Interstitial Lung Disease and Lung Cancer

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veracyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCYT) today announced that two abstracts highlighting the clinical value of the company’s Envisia Genomic Classifier and Percepta ...
News Medical

Routine asthma test more reliable in the morning and has seasonal effects, say doctors

A lung function test used to help diagnose asthma works better in the morning, becoming less reliable throughout the day, Cambridge researchers have found. Using real world data from 1,600 patients, ...
Scientific American

Removing Race from Tests for Lung Disease Could Benefit Millions of Black Americans

For decades, clinical algorithms that were used to diagnose disease have included race as a variable. Over the past several years, growing recognition that this may lead to diagnoses being entirely ...