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Area of Science:

  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Diagnostic Accuracy
  • Health Disparities

Background:

  • Current European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society (ERS/ATS) guidelines for pulmonary function test (PFT) interpretation rely on normal forced vital capacity (FVC) to rule out restriction.
  • This recommendation stems from a 1999 study limited to White patients using outdated race-specific equations.
  • Recent ERS/ATS guidelines advocate for race-neutral reference equations, necessitating a re-evaluation of the FVC's diagnostic utility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To re-evaluate the negative predictive value (NPV) of a normal FVC in excluding lung restriction.
  • To assess the NPV of normal FVC across diverse racial and ethnic groups using race-neutral reference equations.
  • To determine if current PFT interpretation guidelines lead to under-recognition of restriction, particularly in minority populations.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of PFT data from 85,990 patients across two academic medical systems and a national electronic health record (EHR) database between 2000 and 2023.
  • Calculation of the NPV of a normal FVC to exclude restriction, both overall and stratified by racial and ethnic groups.
  • Utilized race-neutral reference equations for PFT interpretation.

Main Results:

  • The overall NPV of a normal FVC to exclude restriction was 80.5%, significantly lower than the 97.6% previously cited.
  • NPV varied considerably by race and ethnicity, with a low of 65.2% for non-Hispanic Black patients compared to 85.9% for non-Hispanic White patients.
  • Lower FVC z-scores among non-Hispanic Black patients contributed significantly to the observed disparities in NPV.

Conclusions:

  • The NPV of a normal FVC to exclude lung restriction is lower than previously reported and exhibits significant variability across racial and ethnic groups.
  • The current ERS/ATS guideline approach for PFT interpretation may lead to the under-recognition of lung restriction.
  • Non-Hispanic Black patients appear particularly vulnerable to under-diagnosis of restriction using the standard normal FVC criterion.