Spirometry

The prevalence of undiagnosed COPD was high among a cohort of individuals participating in low-dose CT lung cancer screening, suggesting that the addition of spirometry to radiological findings would likely improve identification of those with COPD, new data in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society suggest.

Respiratory function decline is associated with weight gain and high BMI in adulthood but can be reversed through maintaining a healthy BMI and losing weight, according to a study published in Thorax.

NEW ORLEANS — Use of spirometry with bronchodilator testing can help reduce overdiagnosis of COPD as well as help differentiate COPD from asthma and asthma-COPD overlap syndrome, researchers reported at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Pirfenidone treatment was associated with improvement in several outcomes among patients with progressive fibrosing unclassifiable interstitial lung disease, according to a new study.