Implications of Race Adjustment in Lung-Function Equations

• Published in: The New England journal of medicine Vol. 390; no. 22; pp. 2083 - 2097
• Main Authors: Diao, James A., He, Yixuan, Khazanchi, Rohan, Nguemeni Tiako, Max Jordan, Witonsky, Jonathan I., Pierson, Emma, Rajpurkar, Pranav, Elhawary, Jennifer R., Melas-Kyriazi, Luke, Yen, Albert, Martin, Alicia R., Levy, Sean, Patel, Chirag J., Farhat, Maha, Borrell, Luisa N., Cho, Michael H., Silverman, Edwin K., Burchard, Esteban G., Manrai, Arjun K.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 13.06.2024
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Allografts; and Inclusion; and Inclusion General; Arteriosclerosis; Biobanks; Child; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Clinical Medicine; Clinical Medicine General; Compensation; COPD; Critical Care; Critical Care General; Death; Disability; Diversity; Equity; Ethnicity; Female; Health services utilization; Humans; Lung diseases; Lung Diseases - ethnology; Lung Diseases - physiopathology; Lung Transplantation - statistics & numerical data; Male; Medical waiting lists; Middle Aged; Minority & ethnic groups; Nutrition Surveys; Outpatient-Based Clinical Medicine; Pulmonary; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - ethnology; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology; Race; Racial Groups; Respiratory diseases; Respiratory function; Respiratory Function Tests; Spirometry; Statistics; Transplantation; Transplants & implants; United States; Young Adult; United States; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US
• ISSN: 0028-4793; 1533-4406; 1533-4406
• DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsa2311809

A study assessed the clinical, occupational, and financial effects associated with changing from race-based to race-neutral equations for the interpretation of lung function on millions of patients.