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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 pattern of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is commonly believed to affect only smokers, is changing.