The GOLD 2024/2025 reports underscore the importance of spirometry in confirming a COPD diagnosis, with a post-bronchodilator ...

The breath-holding test provides a fast method to evaluate your lung capacity together, with breathing control abilities.

Your lungs might be ageing faster than your body, a new study reveals. Factors like pollution, smoking, and infections ...

Early methods of predicting lung involvement in CF patients are essential to target treatment and prevent loss of lung function and respiratory failure. Chest CTs show findings that can assist in ...

Objective To conduct a systematic review investigating the normal age-related changes in lung function in adults without known lung disease. Design Systematic review. Data sources MEDLINE, Embase and ...

1 Direcció d’Atenció Primària, Camp de Tarragona, Institut Català de la Salut, Tarragona, Spain 2 Unitat de Suport a la Recerca Tarragona-Reus, Fundació Institut Universitari per a la Recerca a ...

1 Laboratory of Physiology and Functional Explorations, Department of Medicine, Alioune Diop University of Bambey (UADB), Bambey, Senegal. 2 IRL 3189 Environment, Health, Societies, CNRS-UCAD, Dakar, ...

The current study was conducted on eight poultry farms in Lahore and Sheikhupura to monitor environmental conditions, determine workers’ health status and assess the implementation of standard ...

Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Spirometry was first invented in the 1840s by an English surgeon called John Hutchinson, who realised that lung volume ...

Spirometry is a lung function test that measures how much air you can inhale and exhale, as well as how forcefully you can breathe out. It’s a simple but important test used to diagnose and monitor ...

A transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS for short) is a procedure meant to help blood flow more easily through your liver. It’s usually done to treat complications caused by liver damage ...