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Horn (NL) / Vienna (AT), 12 September 2018 Together with Ingrid Augustin and her colleagues from our long term customer CIRO+, we published the article The respiratory physiome: clustering based on a comprehensive lung function assessment in patients with COPD in PLOS ONE.
The aim of this paper is to provide a comprehensive description of lung function for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and study its connection to functional performance and health status. The Viscovery SOMine cluster model shows that lung-function impairment is a multidimensional problem, which cannot be characterized by a single measurement. In addition, it is shown that the lung-function profile alone is a poor predictor for functional performance, highlighting the necessity of additional performance tests and questionnaires to provide optimal treatment for patients.
Find the full open access article at journals.plos.org