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How "healthy" should children be when selecting reference samples for spirometry?

Lum, S; Bountziouka, V; Sonnappa, S; Cole, TJ; Bonner, R; Stocks, J; (2015) How "healthy" should children be when selecting reference samples for spirometry? European Respiratory Journal , 45 (6) pp. 1576-1581. 10.1183/09031936.00223814. Green open access

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Abstract

How "healthy" do children need to be when selecting reference samples for spirometry? Anthropometry and spirometry were measured in an unselected, multi-ethnic population of school children aged 5-11 years in London, UK, with follow-up assessments 12 months later. Parents provided information on children's birth data and health status. Forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) and forced vital capacity (FVC) were adjusted for sex, age, height and ethnicity using the 2012 Global Lungs Initiative equations, and the effects of potential exclusion criteria on the z-score distributions were examined. After exclusions for current and chronic lung disease, acceptable data were available for 1901 children on 2767 occasions. Healthy children were defined as those without prior asthma or hospitalisation for respiratory problems, who were born at full-term with a birthweight ⩾2.5 kg and who were asymptomatic at testing. Mean±sd z-scores for FEV1 and FVC approximated 0±1, indicating the 2012 Global Lungs Initiative equations were appropriate for this healthy population. However, if children born preterm or with low birthweight, children with prior asthma or children mildly symptomatic at testing were included in the reference, overall results were similar to those for healthy children, while increasing the sample size by 25%. With the exception of clear-cut factors, such as current and chronic respiratory disease, paediatric reference samples for spirometry can be relatively inclusive and hence more generalisable to the target population.

Type: Article
Title: How "healthy" should children be when selecting reference samples for spirometry?
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00223814
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/09031936.00223814
Language: English
Additional information: This is an author-submitted, peer-reviewed version of a manuscript that has been accepted for publication in the European Respiratory Journal, prior to copy-editing, formatting and typesetting. This version of the manuscript may not be duplicated or reproduced without prior permission from the copyright owner, the European Respiratory Society. The publisher is not responsible or liable for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or in any version derived from it by any other parties. The final, copy-edited, published article, which is the version of record, is available without a subscription 18 months after the date of issue publication.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Infection, Immunity and Inflammation Dept
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1463770
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