Self-Reported Smoking Status 10-Months After a Single Session Intervention Including an Education Conference About Smoking Harms and Announcement of Spirometric Lung-Age.

Background: Studies investigating the effects of announcing spirometric lung-age (SLA) on the smokers' self-reported smoking status reported conflicting results.

Main Objective: To evaluate the effects of a single session intervention including an education conference about smoking harms and announcement of SLA on the participants' self-reported smoking status.

Methodology: An interventional study was conducted in a cable factory.

The Effects of Ramadan Fasting on the Spirometric Data of Healthy Adult Males.

The few studies carried out on the effects of Ramadan fasting (RF) on spirometric values present contradictory conclusions. This study aimed at assessing whether RF affects healthy adults' spirometric values. Twenty-nine nonsmoking healthy males ( M ± standard error of mean [ SEM] of age: 27 ± 1 years) who fasted during Ramadan (June 29-July 28, 2014) volunteered to the study.

Applicability of the Old European Respiratory Society/European Community for Steel and Coal reference equations for spirometry interpretation in Tunisian adult population.

Background: Tunisian pulmonary functional laboratories accept the default settings for reference equations (European Respiratory Society/European Community for Steel and Coal (ERS/ECSC1983) offered by the manufacturer even though adult Tunisian reference equations (Tunisian1995) are available.

Objective: To compare the spirometric profile of Tunisian subjects, according to the two reference equations.

Population And Methods: Spirometric data were recorded from 1192 consecutive spirometry procedures in adults aged 18-60 years.

The recent multi-ethnic global lung initiative 2012 (GLI2012) reference values don't reflect contemporary adult's North African spirometry.

Background: The applicability of the recent multi-ethnic reference equations derived by the ERS Global Lung Initiative (ERS/GLI) in interpreting spirometry data in North African adult subjects has not been studied.

Objective: To ascertain how well the recent ERS/GLI reference equations fit contemporary adult Tunisian spirometric data.

Population And Methods: Spirometric data were recorded from 1192 consecutive spirometry procedures in adults aged 18-60 years.