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ATS Breathe Easy - The Time for Race-Neutral Testing is Now!

Mar 25, 2025
27:07

Nirav Bhakta, MD, was the lead author of the ATS Workshop Report on Race-Neutral Testing. He joins Meredith McCormack, MD, MHS, on the latest Breathe Easy podcast to discuss the origin of race-based algorithms and advice on implementing race-neutral testing in your pulmonary function lab. Amy Attaway, MD, Cleveland Clinic, hosts. 

ATS statement on race and ethnicity in pulmonary function test interpretation: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rccm.202302-0310ST

05:03 How did adjustments for race come about?
13:08 What is the global lung function initiative and what is its relationship to race-neutral testing?
14:16 How can pulmonary function labs implement race-neutral testing recommended by ATS?

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