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  • Title: Forced expiratory flows and volumes in a Swedish cohort of healthy term infants.
    Author: Kosma P, Palme-Kilander C, Bottai M, Ljungberg H, Hallberg J.
    Journal: Pediatr Pulmonol; 2020 Jan; 55(1):185-189. PubMed ID: 31682334.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: The use of pulmonary function tests (PFTs) in infants has increased during the last decades, making the need for equipment- and ethnic-specific reference data mandatory for appropriate interpretation of the results. AIM: Our aim was to investigate how well the already published reference equations for infant spirometry fit a healthy population of Swedish infants. METHOD: We performed forced tidal and raised volume expiratory maneuvers in healthy infants using Jaeger BabyBody equipment. RESULTS: PFT data were collected from 91 healthy infants aged between 3 months to 2 years at 143 occasions. Mean (standard deviation) z-scores were 0.68(1.33) for maximal flow at functional residual capacity (V'max FRC), -0.15(0.96) for forced vital capacity (FVC), 0.40(1.33) for the forced expired volume in the initial 0.5 seconds (FEV0.5 ) and 0.52(0.93) for the ratio FEV0.5 /FVC, respectively. Z-scores for all indices but FEV0.5 /FVC were highly dependent on length. CONCLUSIONS: We have shown that the use of previously published reference equations may result in an age-related misinterpretation of lung function measure in a Swedish infant population.
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