Individuals with impaired lung function trajectories experience a higher burden of respiratory symptoms, including wheeze and ...

Following use of race-neutral lung function equations, African American and Latino pediatric patients with asthma had reductions in FEV1 and FVC while white patients with asthma had increases, ...

Sleeve gastrectomy also significantly improves respiratory function and physical activity of individuals with obesity, as ...

NHS England will remove 32 QOF indicators and invest their funding into global sum, childhood vaccinations and cardiovascular prevention.

This model indicated that a patient with a lower MMEF% pred, higher FEV1/FVC ratio, FVC% pred and normal BMI would be more likely to be diagnosed with CVA. We did not complete the external ...

had a post-bronchodilator FEV1/forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio of less than 0·7, had a post-bronchodilator percentage predicted FEV1 of 30–70%, had documented evidence of two moderate or one severe ...

An expense ratio is a measure of how much it costs to operate a mutual fund or ETF, expressed as a percentage of the fund's net assets Lower expense ratios indicate a more cost-effective ...

1 Overall, mean ± SD of FVC was 41.6 ± 31.0%, FEV1 was 42.0 ± 30.0%, and FEV1/FVC was 95.8 ± 18.3%. Spirometry parameters varied among the 3 institutions, as follows. 1 Other parameters were ...

Around 20% to 25% of individuals with rapidly declining FEV 1 /FVC trajectories experienced wheezing and usual phlegm/bronchitis as adolescents/young adults, according to results published in The ...

Named after Nobel laureate William Sharpe (though he preferred to call it the reward-to-variability ratio), the Sharpe Ratio is a key tool for understanding historical returns of various ...

The A/G ratio is a blood test that measures levels of albumin and globulin, the two main proteins in your blood. A high albumin-to-globulin (A/G) ratio may indicate kidney disease, an antibody ...