{"id":7173,"date":"2023-08-12T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2023-08-11T08:08:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T15:08:27","slug":"fixed-ratio-spirometry-misses-copd-diagnoses-in-african-american-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/08\/11\/fixed-ratio-spirometry-misses-copd-diagnoses-in-african-american-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed-ratio spirometry misses COPD diagnoses in African American patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7173\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<p>By Isabella Hornick<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fixed-ratio criteria of FEV<sub>1<\/sub>\/FVC less than 0.7 for COPD resulted in fewer diagnoses in African American vs. non-Hispanic white individuals, according to results published in<em>Journal of&nbsp;<\/em><em>General Internal&nbsp;<\/em><em>Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRelying only on&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/pulmonology\/20230705\/understanding-challenging-racism-in-pulmonary-function-testing\" target=\"_blank\">spirometry<\/a>&nbsp;for diagnosing COPD does not do justice to the known manifestations of the disease,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Elizabeth A. Regan,&nbsp;MD,&nbsp;PhD,&nbsp;<\/strong>professor of medicine at National Jewish Health, told Healio.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/news\/pulmonology\/20230808\/fixedratio-spirometry-misses-copd-diagnoses-in-african-american-patients?utm_source=selligent&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=news\">Read the full article <\/a>in Healio.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"7173\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"2\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading By Isabella Hornick A fixed-ratio criteria of FEV1\/FVC less than 0.7 for COPD resulted in fewer diagnoses in African American vs. non-Hispanic white individuals, according to results published inJournal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2023\/08\/11\/fixed-ratio-spirometry-misses-copd-diagnoses-in-african-american-patients\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fixed-ratio spirometry misses COPD diagnoses in African American patients&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":0,"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_ecp_custom_2":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,368],"tags":[696,2182],"post_format":[],"Dislikes":"","Likes":"","simplefavorites_count":"2","views":"1089","post_likes_plusCounter":"1","post_dislikes_plusCounter":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7175,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions\/7175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}