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Beyond Diagnostics - Removing Race from Lung-Function Test Interpretation

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Meredith C. McCormack *
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David A. Kaminsky
DOI:10.1056/NEJMe2403770delete
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In 2020, the Journal published a Medicine and Society article, Hidden in Plain Sight - Reconsidering the Use of Race Correction in Clinical Algorithms, which was inspired by the authors' observations during their time as medical students.(1) They asserted that as our understanding of race has advanced, clinical tools should reflect new insights, remain scientifically rigorous, and make medicine a more antiracist field. In the field of pulmonary medicine, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) has made recommendations to move to a race-neutral approach to interpreting pulmonary-function test results.(2) The size of healthy lungs depends on age, height, and sex, with . . .

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