Spirometry interpretation in Africa: bridging the gap with relevant reference equations.

IF 4 3区医学 Q1 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

ERJ Open Research Pub Date : 2025-07-21 eCollection Date: 2025-07-01 DOI:10.1183/23120541.00186-2025

Eric Walter Pefura-Yone

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Abstract

Spirometry interpretation in African populations is sensitive to reference equation choice, highlighting limitations of relying solely on GLI global. The GLI African-American equation fitted best. Local equations could improve accuracy. https://bit.ly/3D8bz53.

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非洲肺活量计解释：用相关参考方程弥补差距。

非洲人群的肺活量测定解释对参考方程的选择很敏感，这突出了仅仅依赖全球呼吸量指数的局限性。GLI非裔美国人方程最适合。局部方程可以提高精度。https://bit.ly/3D8bz53。

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ERJ Open Research Medicine-Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

4.30%

发文量

273

审稿时长

8 weeks

期刊介绍： ERJ Open Research is a fully open access original research journal, published online by the European Respiratory Society. The journal aims to publish high-quality work in all fields of respiratory science and medicine, covering basic science, clinical translational science and clinical medicine. The journal was created to help fulfil the ERS objective to disseminate scientific and educational material to its members and to the medical community, but also to provide researchers with an affordable open access specialty journal in which to publish their work.