International Congresses Vienna 2024

The ERS Congress 2024, Vienna

This annual event brings together the world's respiratory experts to showcase all the latest advances in respiratory medicine and science.

Chair(s): Jellien Makonga-Braaksma, Winfried J. Randerath

Session type: Experts interview

Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan

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Race-specific versus race-neutral spirometry equations

Anh Tuan Dinh-xuan

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To present recommendations to avoid ethnicity “corrections” when interpreting pulmonary function test (PFT) in patients and healthy people; to discuss consequences of removing lung volume ethnicity “corrections” in the interpretation of PFT results for people of non-European descent, if “uncorrected” z-scores are applied; to present several approaches to pulmonary function test interpretation that do not rely on ancestry.