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=== COPD ===

The [[Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease]] provides guidelines for the diagnosis, severity, and management of [[Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease|COPD]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://goldcopd.org/about-us/ |access-date=2022-06-16 |website=Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease - GOLD |language=en-US}}</ref> To determine obstruction in a patient's lungs, the the post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC needs to be <0.7.<ref name=":0" /> Then, the FEV1 percentage of predicted result is used to determine the degree of obstruction where the lower the percent the worse the obstruction.<ref name=":1" />

=== Maximum respiratory pressures ===