• A genome-wide association study identifies risk loci for spirometric measures among smokers of European and African ancestry 

      Lutz, Sharon M; Cho, Michael H; Young, Kendra; Hersh, Craig P; Castaldi, Peter J; McDonald, Merry-Lynn; Regan, Elizabeth; Mattheisen, Manuel; DeMeo, Dawn L; Parker, Margaret; Foreman, Marilyn; Make, Barry J; Jensen, Robert L; Casaburi, Richard; Lomas, David A; Bhatt, Surya P; Bakke, Per; Gulsvik, Amund; Crapo, James D; Beaty, Terri H; Laird, Nan M; Lange, Christoph; Hokanson, John E; Silverman, Edwin K (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12-03)
      Background Pulmonary function decline is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality among smokers. Post bronchodilator FEV1 and FEV1/FVC ratio are considered the standard assessment of airflow obstruction. We performed ...
    • A pilot study of hot-wire, ultrasonic and wedge-bellows spirometer inter- and intra-variability 

      Aardal, Marit Elisabeth; Svendsen, Lene Løvendahl; Lehmann, Sverre; Eagan, Tomas Mikal; Haaland, Ingvild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017-10-10)
      Objective: The aim of this pilot study was to compare spirometric values obtained with different types of spirometers, spirometers of same type, and repeated measurements with the same spirometer in a pulmonary function ...