Participants with higher forced vital capacity, indicating better lung function, were less likely to develop heart disease, diabetes, and stroke over 10 years.

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Researchers have found in a new study that Individuals with better lung function, as measured by forced vital capacity (FVC), ...

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Your FVC is the total amount of air you can breathe out and FEV1 is the amount you breathe out in one second. A ratio of your FEV1/FVC needs to be less than 0.7 for a diagnosis of COPD.

Using the pulmonary function parameters from the NHANES SPX dataset, we collected FEV1 and FVC as primary indicators and calculated the FEV1/FVC ratio. PRISm was defined as FEV1/FVC ≥ 0.7 with FEV1% < ...

Mild to moderate COPD was defined as forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) of at least 50 percent predicted and a post-bronchodilator FEV1/forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio of less than 0.70.

You have emphysema if the ratio of FEV1 to FVC is less than 70%. That means that after you exhaled for 1 second, 30% or more of the air in your lungs hasn’t emptied out. Stage 2 emphysema is ...

In terms of static pulmonary function, FVC and FVC%Pred gradually decrease with the increase of BMI. Considering the mechanical load caused by the accumulation of excess adipose tissue in chest wall ...

It measures the total amount you were able to exhale, called the forced vital capacity (FVC). The test also measures how much you exhaled in the first second, known as FEV1. Other factors also ...

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