A new analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine estimated that removing race from spirometry algorithms could result in classifying lung disease of nearly half a million Black Americans as more severe, impacting disability payments by over $1 billion.
There are tradeoffs with changing race-adjusted algorithms, but the study provides strong support for shifting to global standards in pulmonary function tests, as stated by pulmonologist Neil Schluger.
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