To diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), doctors typically use spirometry to measure your lung function. They usually also perform other tests to monitor the damage to your lungs.

Spirometry is rarely used alone to diagnose a lung condition. It is typically combined with other findings, such as a physical exam, medical history review, and imaging tests, to reach a diagnosis.

Spirometry is a lung function test that can distinguish restrictive conditions — like fibrosis, sarcoidosis, or obesity-related lung restriction — from obstructive lung diseases — such as ...

We've all felt winded when taking the stairs or dealt with a cough from time to time. But if these issues linger, they could ...

COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, affects more than 30 million Americans, yet many have never heard of it. COPD ...

Due to the destructive nature of COPD on patients’ lungs and well-being, timely diagnosis is key, and integrating spirometry at the time of lung cancer screening could help identify this disease ...

A rapid test harnessing the power of AI is set to transform the diagnosis of a lung condition that affects 3 million people in the UK. Two thirds of those with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Pulmonary function tests, he said, have no gold standard or new data analyses and are affected by a wide variety of factors including ancestry, poverty, and air pollution, making the issue far ...