Rate of Decline of Forced Vital Capacity Predicts Future Arterial Hypertension

Rate of decline of forced vital capacity predicts future arterial hypertension: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.

Lung function studies in middle-aged subjects predict cardiovascular disease mortality. We studied whether greater loss of forced vital capacity (FVC) early in life predicted incident hypertension. The sample was 3205 black and white men and women in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study examined between 1985 and 1986 (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults year 0...

Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) and Forced Vital Capacity in 1 Second (FEV1) of Apparently Healthy Non-smoker Adult Obese

Low forced vital capacity predicts poor prognosis in gastric cancer patients

Preoperative pulmonary function assessment is used to select surgical candidates and predict the occurrence of postoperative complications. The present study enrolled 1210 gastric cancer patients (949 males and 261 females). Forced vital capacity (FVC) and maximal voluntary ventilation (MVV) were measured as a percent of predicted values. We then analyzed associations between patient pulmonary ...

Normal values of forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume (FEV 1-0), and peak flow rate (PFR) in children.

In children, the respiratory tract is probably more often affected by disease than any other system of the body. In spite of this, quantitative methods of evaluation are seldom used outside special respiratory units. No clinician would manage a patient with potential renal failure without laboratory aids, even if it were only an estimation of the blood urea, but he would seldom give children wi...

Association of Forced Vital Capacity with the Developmental Gene NCOR2

BACKGROUND Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) is an important predictor of all-cause mortality in the absence of chronic respiratory conditions. Epidemiological evidence highlights the role of early life factors on adult FVC, pointing to environmental exposures and genes affecting lung development as risk factors for low FVC later in life. Although highly heritable, a small number of genes have been f...