Sentence examples for based on lung function from inspiring English sources
The results are based on lung function tests performed every 12 to 18 months from March 2000 until September 2008.
A protocol for sputum induction which restricts the use of hypertonic saline based on lung function is both safe and effective in subjects with moderate to severe COPD.
As in traditional smoke-related COPD, the assessment of the severity and disease progression of lung disease in AATD is conventionally based on lung function; however, pulmonary function tests are unable to discriminate between emphysema and airways disease, the two hallmark pathologic features of COPD.
The use of criteria based on lung function studies to determine diagnosis may allow lower levels of antigen exposure.
For all outcomes RRs are higher when based on mortality, and for COPD are markedly lower when based on lung function.
Compared to RRs based on lung function, the meta-regressions indicated that RRs based on mortality are about 1.5 times higher for both ever and current smoking.
The term COPD has only been widely used in the last 25 years or so, and definitions based on lung-function have been changing, so there may well be differences by time in the nature of outcomes we classified as COPD.
The results need to be interpreted with caution because diagnosis of COPD and its severity are based on one lung function measurement (including several postbronchodilator maneuvers).
For COPD, the relationship to the characteristics was also studied separately for outcomes based on mortality (33 RRs), based only on lung function (58 RRs) and based on other definitions (36 RRs).
Most guidelines, amongst which the 2003 Global initiative for Chronic Obstructive lung Diseases (GOLD) guidelines [ 3], and the Dutch GP guideline [ 4], have based severity categorization on lung function impairment, more specifically the FEV1.
Other variant analyses restricted attention to specific subtypes of outcome (e.g. for COPD, whether the definition was based on mortality, on lung function criteria only, or on other definitions).
