… Janet Stocks … Janet Stocks … Stocks and colleagues (93) found a wider repeatability
coefficient in infants younger than 6 weeks compared with older infants. However, all …

Interest in the contribution of changes in lung development during early life to subsequent
respiratory morbidity is increasing. Most evidence of an association between adverse …

Although pulmonary function testing plays a key role in the diagnosis and management of
chronic pulmonary conditions in children under 6 years of age, objective physiologic …

The aim of the Task Force was to derive continuous prediction equations and their lower limits
of normal for spirometric indices, which are applicable globally. Over 160,000 data points …

Rationale: The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) reference
is currently recommended for interpreting spirometry results, but it is limited by the lack of …

Inert gas washout tests, performed using the single- or multiple-breath washout technique,
were first described over 60 years ago. As measures of ventilation distribution inhomogeneity, …

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an attractive method for clinically monitoring patients
during mechanical ventilation, because it can provide a non-invasive continuous image …

Aim: The prevalence of airway obstruction varies widely with the definition used. Objectives:
To study differences in the prevalence of airway obstruction when applying four international …

Rationale: The long-term respiratory sequelae of infants born extremely preterm (EP) and
now graduating from neonatal intensive care remains uncertain. Objectives: To assess the …

Sensitive measures of lung function applicable to young subjects are needed to detect early
cystic fibrosis (CF) lung disease. Forty children with CF aged 2 to 5 years and 37 age-…