The condition of our lungs can reveal a great deal about our wider health. Luckily you can also get them into better shape.

In an ideal world, every primary care setting features lung function tests and multiple imaging capabilities on-site, and cost and insurance reimbursement are not limitations.

Race-neutral pulmonary function testing, now recommended by ATS and implemented at Boston Medical Center, has had a long road ...

The use of newly developed race-neutral reference equations for pulmonary function test (PFT) interpretation led to a significant increase in both the prevalence and severity of respiratory ...

The VA is studying how removing race from widely used spirometry tests that measure lung function may affect disability benefits for veterans.

WASHINGTON — By using race specific equations when interpreting pulmonary function tests, racism and bias come to the surface, according to a presentation at the American Thoracic Society ...

Clinicians should stop using the race adjustment factor in pulmonary function testing (PFT), according to a recent entry in the Things We Do for No Reason series in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Chronic lung disease evident on HRCT is prominent among adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV and is linked to small airway obstruction.