Severity of Airflow Obstruction Based on FEV 1 /FVC vs FEV 1 % of Predicted in the General US Population.

Helena Backman Lowie E G W Vanfleteren Byron M Thomashow Magnus Per Ekström

Published in: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (2024)

%pred as measures of severity of airflow limitation show similar prediction of breathlessness and mortality in the adult US population across ethnicity groups. However, stage 1 differed more clearly from non-obstructive based on FEV1/FVC than FEV1%pred. This article is open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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