Reducing the Decline in Patients’ Forced Vital Capacity Can Lower Mortality Rates and Healthcare Burden in IPF, Study Says
Reducing the decline of forced vital capacity (FVC), a measure of lung function, can improve the quality of life, and lower the mortality rates and financial burden of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a new study has found. The study, titled “Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) decline,…