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ArticleAnnals of the American Thoracic Society2025

A Normal Forced Vital Capacity Does Not Reliably or Equitably Exclude Restriction.

Alexander T Moffett, Aparna Balasubramanian, Meredith C McCormack, Jaya Aysola, Scott D Halpern, Gary E Weissman

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Article in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Restriction with Normal Spirometry: A Retrospective Cohort Study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Alexander T MoffettUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0001-8490-4899
Aparna BalasubramanianJohns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland.ORCID 0000-0002-1854-6672
Meredith C McCormackJohns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland.ORCID 0000-0003-1702-3201
Jaya AysolaUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Scott D HalpernUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Gary E WeissmanUniversity of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0001-9588-3819

Funding

Building equitable and feasible clinical decision support tools for population health management of people living with chronic lung diseaseR03HL171424 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WEISSMAN, GARY · 2024 to 2025
$244k
Applying Causal Inference and Deep Learning to Improve the Accuracy and Equity of Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation.F32HL167456 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MOFFETT, ALEXANDER T · 2023 to 2023
$88k
NHLBI NIH HHS F32 HL167456NHLBI NIH HHS NHLBI F32 HL167456NHLBI NIH HHS NHLBI R03 HL171424NHLBI NIH HHS R03 HL171424
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Abstract

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PMID40504808
PMCPMC12416156

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