Reference Values of Impulse Oscillometric Lung Function Indices in Adults of Advanced Age

Holger Schulz, Claudia Flexeder, Jürgen Behr, Margit Heier, Rolf Holle, Rudolf M Huber, Rudolf A Jörres, Dennis Nowak, Annette Peters, H-Erich Wichmann, Joachim Heinrich, Stefan Karrasch and the KORA Study Group

PLOS ONE, 2013, vol. 8, issue 5, 1-10

Abstract: Background: Impulse oscillometry (IOS) is a non-demanding lung function test. Its diagnostic use may be particularly useful in patients of advanced age with physical or mental limitations unable to perform spirometry. Only few reference equations are available for Caucasians, none of them covering the old age. Here, we provide reference equations up to advanced age and compare them with currently available equations. Methods: IOS was performed in a population-based sample of 1990 subjects, aged 45–91 years, from KORA cohorts (Augsburg, Germany). From those, 397 never-smoking, lung healthy subjects with normal spirometry were identified and sex-specific quantile regression models with age, height and body weight as predictors for respiratory system impedance, resistance, reactance, and other parameters of IOS applied. Results: Women (n = 243) showed higher resistance values than men (n = 154), while reactance at low frequencies (up to 20 Hz) was lower (p

Date: 2013
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