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  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Biostatistics
  • Population Health

Background:

  • The Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI) established spirometry reference values in 2012 based on international data from healthy individuals, stratified by sex, age, and height across four ancestral groups.
  • In 2023, a unified set of predicted spirometry values was developed to be ancestry-independent for the entire GLI database.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of varying proportions of ancestral groups within age cohorts on predicted spirometry values derived from the 2012 and 2023 GLI equations.
  • To assess the consequences of using inverse probability weighting in the 2023 GLI equations across the full age range (3.5 to 95 years).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI) spirometry database, noting the overrepresentation of European ancestry (77.4%).
  • Applied inverse probability weighting in the 2023 GLI equations to approximate equal contribution from the four ancestral groups.
  • Analyzed the effect of this weighting strategy on predicted spirometry values across different age cohorts.

Main Results:

  • Participant proportions from each ancestry group varied significantly across age cohorts.
  • The European ancestry group, with the highest predicted lung volumes, had a disproportionately high contribution in younger children and older adults.
  • GLI 2023 predicted lung volumes were higher in older adults and lower in children/adolescents compared to GLI 2012 predictions for individual ancestral groups.

Conclusions:

  • The inverse weighting strategy in the 2023 GLI equations introduced systematic bias, skewing predicted spirometry values.
  • This bias leads to progressively overestimated predicted lung volumes with increasing age in adults.
  • Conversely, it results in progressively underestimated predicted lung volumes with increasing age in children and adolescents.