Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Comment
. 2022 Sep 15;206(6):792-795.
doi: 10.1164/rccm.202204-0628LE.

Reply by Elmaleh-Sachs et al. to Townsend and Cowl, and to Miller et al

Arielle Elmaleh-Sachs  1 , Pallavi Balte  1 , Elizabeth C Oelsner  1 , Norrina B Allen  2 , Aaron Baugh  3 , Alain G Bertoni  4 , John L Hankinson  5 , James S Pankow  6 , Wendy S Post  7 , Joseph E Schwartz  8 , Benjamin M Smith  1 , Karol Watson  9 , R Graham Barr  1
Affiliations
Comment

Reply by Elmaleh-Sachs et al. to Townsend and Cowl, and to Miller et al

Arielle Elmaleh-Sachs et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. .
No abstract available

PubMed Disclaimer

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Systolic blood pressure density distributions among never-smoking White and Black participants free of clinical cardiovascular disease in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. The mean blood pressure was 124 mm Hg among White and 132 mm Hg among Black participants (8 mm Hg mean difference, P < 0.001). The dashed lines show the upper limits of normal (ULN) calculated in these data, which were 162 mm Hg for White participants and 174 mm Hg for Black participants. The solid line shows the recommended threshold of 140 mm Hg for the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension in patients without clinical cardiovascular disease (6). Differences of mean systolic blood pressure and ULN were similar in an analysis of participants without reported hypertension (data not shown). Classification of systolic hypertension was based on a blood pressure of 160 mm Hg until 1993 and 140 mm Hg thereafter (12).
See this image and copyright information in PMC

Comment on

References

    1. Elmaleh-Sachs A, Balte P, Oelsner EC, Allen NB, Baugh A, Bertoni AG, et al. Race/ethnicity, spirometry reference equations, and prediction of incident clinical events: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Lung Study. Am J Respir Crit Care Med . 2022;205:700–710. - PubMed
    1. Graham BL, Steenbruggen I, Miller MR, Barjaktarevic IZ, Cooper BG, Hall GL, et al. Standardization of Spirometry 2019 Update. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society technical statement. Am J Respir Crit Care Med . 2019;200:e70–e88. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Stanojevic S, Kaminsky DA, Miller M, Thompson B, Aliverti A, Barjaktarevic I, et al. ERS/ATS technical standard on interpretive strategies for routine lung function tests. Eur Respir J . 2021 doi: 10.1183/13993003.01499-2021. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Oelsner EC, Loehr LR, Henderson AG, Donohue KM, Enright PL, Kalhan R, et al. Classifying chronic lower respiratory disease events in epidemiologic cohort studies. Ann Am Thorac Soc . 2016;13:1057–1066. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Schluger NW. The vanishing rationale for the race adjustment in pulmonary function test interpretation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med . 2022;205:612–614. - PubMed