The Cardiology Advisor

Race-Neutral Pulmonary Function Testing: The Long Journey Toward Health Equity

Race-neutral pulmonary function testing, now recommended by ATS and implemented at Boston Medical Center, has had a long road ...
Thorax

Rethinking ‘normal’: what 129Xe-MRI reveals about spirometric dysanapsis in airway disease

Airways dysanapsis, a mismatch between airway calibre and lung volume, has long been observed as a physiological variant ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Researchers Find Executive Function Tests May Be Culturally Biased

Researchers from Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology found that educated children perform better on psychological tests measuring executive function abilities, challenging the accuracy ...
Frontiers

Canonical correlation analysis on the association between pulmonary function and obesity in early-onset COPD: CT-based body composition analysis

Background: While body composition impacts pulmonary function, the differential effects of visceral (VAT) vs. subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) in early-onset COPD remain unquantified. Objective: To ...