#lungfunction — Public Fediverse posts
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🌬️🚸 Breaking news: children breathe better in less toxic air! Who would've guessed that not choking on pollutants might help lung function? 🤯 Next, we'll learn water quenches thirst! 💧
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1l1r1zne1ro #airquality #lungfunction #pollutionawareness #breakingnews #HackerNews #ngated -
Dal study found young people who use #ElectronicCigarettes have worse #LungFunction https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6588824 “young people who use electronic cigarettes have worse lung function. The study showed that people who vape daily have worse lung function, specifically in the small airways. She added that there are still some uncertainties around the true impact of the aerosolized chemicals produced by e-cigarettes on a user's lungs.”
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We did some work looking at race specific equations that try to establish normal vs abnormal lung function.
TL/DR they don't do what they purport to do;"Race-Specific Spirometry Equations Do Not Improve Models of Dyspnea and Quantitative Chest CT Phenotypes"
https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(23)01054-1/fulltext