… To investigate the annual decline of lung function in subjects with self-reported asthma, we
analyzed data from a longitudinal epidemiologic study, The Copenhagen City Heart Study. …

… This study has investigated the childhood factors in asthmatic subjects that are associated
with the level of FEV 1 in early adulthood, as well as the factors in early adulthood that are …

… Reed proposed conditions responsible for the loss of lung function in asthmatic subjects:
airway remodeling, bronchiectasis, postinfectious pulmonary fibrosis, and emphysema and …

… adult asthmatics, the median values for spirometric lung function indices were 3.2 L for FVC,
2.5 L for FEV1, and 405 L/min for PEFR (Table 1). The deviation of spirometric lung function …

… lung resistance, our results suggest that an important difference between the normal and
asthmatic subjects is … on the observations made in the asthmatic subjects after pretreatment with …

… lung function during childhood, a lower maximally attained level of lung function and excessive
decline in lung function … for 92 subjects with asthma and 186 nonasthmatic subjects. Only …

… subjects having asthmatic symptoms but normal lung function… asthmatic symptoms but
normal lung function (“asthmatic … 40 patients with asthma, and 40 healthy control subjects. The …

… between two lung volumes provides an accurate surrogate for regional lung function, we …
assess regional differences in lung function of severe asthmatics relative to normal subjects. …

… The percentage of subjects in each grade at 21 yr of age who had lung function measurements
above or below the normal limits are given in table II. These results again indicated that …

… Eighteen subjects admitted for an asthma exacerbation underwent lung function testing,
including measures of acinar ventilation heterogeneity (S acin ) and conductive ventilation …