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Respiratory disability: what is it, how can we measure it

WEBRespiratory disability is a significant health outcome that has important implications both for the individual patient and for society. First, “disability” represents …

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Respiratory symptoms in older people and their association with

WEBBackground: A study was undertaken to assess the prevalence of reported respiratory symptoms in a population aged over 75 years and their association with …

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Impact of post-COVID-19 condition on health status and activities …

WEBObjective To assess health and activities of daily living (ADL) in SARS-CoV-2-positive adults with and without post-COVID-19 condition (PCC) and compare this with negative …

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Epidemiology of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: opportunities and

WEBIdiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare condition for which reliable disease trends over time can be difficult to obtain. Understanding the epidemiology of IPF is …

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The challenge of providing better care for patients with chronic

WEBChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of ill health and death in adults and straddles the interface between primary and secondary care. …

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Respiratory muscle strength and the risk of incident

WEBBackground: Maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP) is a measure of inspiratory muscle strength. The prognostic importance of MIP for cardiovascular events among elderly …

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The exposome: a new paradigm to study the impact of

WEBThe exposome concept offers a new and exciting paradigm for improvement and integration of currently scattered and uncertain data on the environmental component in disease …

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Evaluation of a health and social care programme to improve …

WEBOriginal research Evaluation of a health and social care programme to improve outcomes following critical illness: a multicentre study Philip Henderson,1 Tara …

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Creatine supplementation during pulmonary rehabilitation in

WEBBackground: Skeletal muscle wasting and dysfunction are strong independent predictors of mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). …

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Association between early life history of respiratory disease and

WEBMETHODS. Detailed information on the Glasgow Alumni Cohort is available elsewhere.5 Briefly, between 1948 and 1968, students in Glasgow University were invited to attend a …

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Providing better care for patients who may have pneumonia

WEB“It is not as easy to elicit abnormal physical signs in a bedroom of traditional English winter temperature as in a well heated hospital ward.”1 Pneumonia is common throughout the …

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Lung consequences in adults born prematurely Thorax

WEBAlthough survival has improved significantly in recent years, prematurity remains a major cause of infant and childhood mortality and morbidity. Preterm births (<37 weeks of …

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Pulmonary rehabilitation Thorax

WEBThe aim of pulmonary rehabilitation is to reduce disability and handicap in people with lung disease and to improve their quality of life while diminishing the health care burden. The …

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Author’s response: Airway anatomy in COPD: many …

WEBThe homothety factor, as defined by Bokov and Delclaux,1 describes a structural aspect of the airway tree not directly addressed in our study, which we agree is important and …

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Non-adherence in difficult asthma: time to take it seriously

WEBIn the Belfast study 25 of 51 patients (49%) were found to be non-adherent to prednisolone using a cortisol/prednisolone assay; again, patients only admitted low adherence when …

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Predictive value of lung function measures for cardiovascular risk: …

WEBIntroduction Although lung function measures are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), the added predictive values of these measures remain unclear. Methods From …

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Comprehensive analysis of environmental exposure to hazardous …

WEBBackground There is growing interest in the joint effects of hazardous trace elements (HTEs) on lung function deficits, but the data are limited. This is a critical …

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Current smoking and COVID-19 risk: results from a population

WEBBackground The association between current tobacco smoking, the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 and the severity of illness is an important information gap. …

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Socioeconomic deprivation and inequalities in lung cancer

WEBInequalities in lung cancer care between the richest and poorest in society attract attention and rightly so; the disease is most prevalent and survival poorest in those who are …

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Combined effect of ozone and household air pollution on COPD in …

WEBObjectives Air pollution has been suggested as an important risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); however, evidence of interactive effects on …

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Post-pandemic tuberculosis incidence: potential success of active …

WEBUntil 2020, tuberculosis (TB) was annually the number one infectious killer disease globally. When the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, TB took the number two seat in this said …

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Subacute hypersensitivity pneumonitis in an HIV infected …

WEBThis case report describes an HIV infected woman who developed sub- acute hypersensitivity pneumonitis in re- sponse to bird exposure. The disease manifested …

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