Reference values for spirometry, including vital capacity, in Japanese adults calculated with the LMS method and compared with previous values

Respiratory Investigation

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 242-250

  Kubota, Masaru ^a   Kobayashi, Hirosuke ^a   Quanjer, Philip H ^b   Omori, Hisamitsu ^c   Tatsumi, Koichiro ^d   Kanazawa, Minoru ^e  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lower limit of normal; Reference equation; Reference value; Spirometry; Vital capacity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LMS METHOD; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; REFERENCE VALUE; SPIROMETRY; VERY ELDERLY; VITAL CAPACITY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOWER LIMIT OF NORMAL; LUNG FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903696118     PISSN: 22125345     EISSN: 22125353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resinv.2014.03.003     Document Type: Article

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