Applicability of the global lung function spirometry equations in contemporary multiethnic children.

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R Bonner, S Lum, J Stocks, J Kirkby, A Wade, S Sonnappa. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2013;188(4):515–516 In 2012, as a result of the Global Lung Function Initiative, the first global, all-age (3–95 years of age), multiethnic reference equations for spirometry (GLI-2012) were published. The authors of the present paper, as part of the Size and Lung Function in Children study, sought to investigate existing ethnic differences in lung function in a multiethnic population of children and to validate the …