TY - JOUR T1 - Global Lung Initiative spirometry references in healthy 3–15-year-old French children JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00023-2019 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 00023-2019 AU - Véronique Nève AU - François Machuron AU - Hélène Behal AU - Michael Howsam AU - Catherine-Marie Methlin AU - Christelle Delille AU - Georges Baquet AU - Régis Matran Y1 - 2019/07/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/5/3/00023-2019.abstract N2 - The Global Lung Initiative (GLI) Task Force published references for spirometry derived from data collated from a large population of healthy individuals aged 3–95 years, from 26 countries [1]. However data from French children were not included in these equations and external validation of the references is recommended [2]. Our study's aim was to compare z-score values and distributions obtained using the references of Zapletal et al. [3, 4] (Zap-Ref) for preschool [3] and school children [4] currently used in France with those obtained using the GLI's references (GLI-Ref) as applied to data from 3–15 year-old healthy French children from northern France.Global Lung Initiative spirometry references satisfactorily fit data of healthy 3- to 15-year-old French children http://bit.ly/2Z2922RThe authors are grateful to the children from the schools of Illies, Herlies and La Bassée (all France) who enthusiastically participated in this study and to the Inspection d'Académie of Lille (France). ER -