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How do you mitigate the risk of inadverdent under or over diagnosis of COPD in certain populations with transition to race-neutral spirometry reference equations?

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Pulmonology · Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Hi - I use the GOLD guidelines of fixed (rather than % predicted) FEV1/FVC ratio of < 0.7 to define obstruction for COPD. Most of the major studies in forming COPD treatment have used the fixed ratio. There is a risk of overdiagnosis in an older population with the fixed ratio, but in an older indiv...

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