Sentence examples for lung function criteria from inspiring English sources

Thus population-based cross-sectional studies using lung function criteria alone probably include cases with less severe disease than studies in hospitals or using mortality records.

Hence, "COPD populations" analysed in those studies that did not use lung function criteria may differ from people with COPD defined in accordance with GOLD criteria [ 24].

These could be based on International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes, on lung function criteria, on a combination of lung function criteria and symptoms, or on combinations of diagnosed conditions (such as CB or emphysema, or CB, emphysema or asthma), where diagnoses were extracted from medical records or reported in questionnaires.

Diagnosis of connective tissue disease will be made according to the rheumatological criteria for that disease; ILD in this setting will be diagnosed according to clinical/radiologic and lung function criteria, with lung biopsy in atypical cases.

Following the traditional practice of considering irreversible airway obstruction to be COPD, the COPD diagnosis was strictly based on the postbronchodilator lung function criteria without requiring documented exposure to a known causative agent.

The cohort study by Keddisssi et al. [ 26], the study by van Gestel et al. [ 21] and the RCT [ 19] applied lung function criteria (FEV1/FVC<70%) for the definition of obstructive lung disease.

The recommendations about assessment of severe asthma follow the 2014 ERS/ATS task force guidelines [ 33], with the caution that the task force lung function criterion (a pre-bronchodilator FEV1 of <80% predicted in the previous year) may lead to over-classification of asthma as severe.

Lung function inclusion criteria were a post-albuterol FEV1/forced vital capacity ratio <0.70 and a post-albuterol FEV1 of ≤70%% of predicted normal.

The lung function fit the criteria for each group.

For COPD RRs are higher when the definition was based on mortality than when based on lung function or other criteria.

Substantial variation exists in the definitions of cases and controls between studies (e.g., physiologic measurements of lung function using GOLD criteria or use of lower limit of normal [LLN]), as well as in spirometry protocol (e.g., pre- vs. post-bronchodilator).