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. 2018 Jul 17;154(6):1301–1310. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.07.002

Table 2.

Bronchodilator PFT Results

Variable Asthma/COPD Overlap Isolated-Asthma Isolated-COPD Neither Diagnosis
Pre-BD FEV1 % predicted 67.3 ± 14.8 80.9 ± 13.5a 82.3 ± 15.2a 96.9 ± 13.2a
Post-BD FEV1 % predicted 81.3 ± 14.5 96.2 ± 13.7a 85.9 ± 15.0a 100.5 ± 13.5a
Pre-BD FVC % predicted 93.3 ± 15.8 87.1 ± 13.9a 101.2 ± 15.1a 98.3 ± 12.9a
Post-BD FVC % predicted 101.8 ± 14.0 96.0 ± 13.3a 103.4 ± 15.1 98.5 ± 12.9a
Pre-BD FEV1/FVC 0.56 ± 0.08 0.73 ± 0.07a 0.62 ± 0.07a 0.77 ± 0.05a
Post-BD FEV1/FVC 0.62 ± 0.07 0.78 ± 0.05a 0.64 ± 0.06a 0.80 ± 0.05a
Pre-BD RV/TLC 0.40 ± 0.10 0.33 ± 0.09a 0.33 ± 0.08a 0.28 ± 0.07a

Data are expressed as mean ± SD. RV = residual volume; TLC = total lung capacity. See Table 1 legend for expansion of other abbreviations.

a

P < .05 vs asthma/COPD overlap subgroup.