Table 12Documentation of Pulmonary Obstruction

Criteria% (No.)
Obstruction confirmed by postbronchodilator FEV1/FVC <0.793.2 (179)
Determined eligible by pulmonologist based on case history and diagnostic imagining and postbronchodilator FEV1/FVC ≥0.7 and ≤0.753.1 (6)
Determined eligible by pulmonologist based on case history and diagnostic imaging without good-quality spirometry results3.6 (7)

Abbreviations: FEV1, forced expiratory volume at 1 second; FVC, forced vital capacity.

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