James A Diao1, Yixuan He1, Rohan Khazanchi1

  • 1From the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School (J.A.D., P.R., L.M.-K., C.J.P., M.F., A.K.M.), the Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital (J.A.D., A.K.M.), the Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit (Y.H., A.R.M.) and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.F.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Combined Residency Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, and Boston Medical Center (R.K.), the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University (R.K.), the Department of Medicine (M.J.N.T.) and the Channing Division of Network Medicine and the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine (M.H.C., E.K.S.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (S.L.), Boston, and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge (Y.H., A.R.M.) - all in Massachusetts; the Departments of Pediatrics (J.I.W.), Medicine (J.R.E., E.G.B.), and Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences (J.R.E., E.G.B.), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; the Department of Computer Science, Cornell University, Ithaca (E.P.), and the Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College (E.P.), and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, City University of New York (L.N.B.), New York - all in New York; the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (L.M.-K.); and the Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago (A.Y.).

概括

种族中立的肺功能方程可能会重新分类数百万,影响疾病分类和残疾补偿在不同种族群体之间有所不同. 虽然对呼吸系统结果的预测准确性仍然相似,但这种转变影响了数百万人,特别是黑人和白人.

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