Small airway dysfunction linked to symptoms in WTC-exposed workers with normal spirometry
A study of New York City Fire Department workers exposed to the World Trade Center site reports that oscillometry detects a symptomatic phenotype that spirometry misses.
“small airway dysfunction on oscillometry is associated with respiratory symptoms, strongest in those with eosinophilia”— ERS publications
Small airway dysfunction measured by oscillometry is associated with respiratory symptoms in World Trade Center-exposed New York City Fire Department workers who have normal spirometry, according to a study highlighted by ERS publications on X.
The post said the association was strongest in workers with eosinophilia. It described the finding as revealing a phenotype that spirometry misses.
The post summarises the study's conclusions in a single sentence. It does not give the number of participants, the size of the associations, the definitions used for small airway dysfunction or eosinophilia, or the journal in which the work appears. Those details are not stated in the post, and a link to the full paper was included.
ERS publications is the account for the European Respiratory Society's journals and books, including the European Respiratory Journal, European Respiratory Review, ERJ Open Research and Breathe.
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“small airway dysfunction on oscillometry is associated with respiratory symptoms, strongest in those with eosinophilia”
— ERS publications View the post on X
