Preserved ratio impaired spirometry is linked to the development of airway obstruction, regardless of smoking habits, a ...

In terms of time, spirometry takes around 10 to 15 minutes, according to Marchetti. “In a busy clinical practice, if it takes a half hour, we’re not going to do it because it slows everything ...

Spirometry is the only recognized method of ... people don’t complain about symptoms,” says Jill Ohar, director of Clinical Operations Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.

When spirometry is unavailable, physicians can use the St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire score plus peak expiratory flow ...