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Cheyne–Stokes respiration: friend or foe?
Background Orthopnoea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnoea are common entities regularly confronting thoracic physicians, particularly those with an interest in sleep medicine or non-invasive ventilatory ...
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Summary of effects of parental smoking on the respiratory health of children and implications for research
BACKGROUND Two recent reviews have assessed the effect of parental smoking on respiratory disease in children. METHODS The results of the systematic quantitative review published as a series inThorax ...
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Diagnosis and definition of severe refractory asthma: an international consensus statement from the Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI)
9 European Union (EU) Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Program Understanding Severe Asthma, Consortium Unbiased Biomarkers for the Prediction of Respiratory Disease Outcomes (U-BIOPRED) ...
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Characteristics of COPD in never-smokers and ever-smokers in the general population: results from the CanCOLD study
12 Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to Dr Wan C Tan, UBC James Hogg Research Centre, Providence Heart+Lung Institute, University of ...
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Gene expression networks in COPD: microRNA and mRNA regulation
1 Department of Medicine, Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA Background The mechanisms underlying chronic obstructive ...
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Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...
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S103 Clinical effectiveness of tezepelumab on upper and lower respiratory symptoms in patients with asthma and co-morbid nasal polyposis
Introduction Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyposis (CRSwNP) affects a significant proportion of people with severe asthma (SA). Despite the effectiveness of anti-IL5/5R therapies in the ...
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease • 1: Susceptibility factors for COPD the genotype–environment interaction
2 Channing Laboratory and Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA This work was supported by NIH grants HL 61575 and HL 68926 ...
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How much asthma is really attributable to atopy?
a Wellington Asthma Research Group, Wellington School of Medicine, P.O. Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand, b Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, National Public Health Institute, P. O. Box 95, Kuopio, ...
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Effect of vitamin A on adult lung function: a triangulation of evidence approach
Background Vitamin A, an essential micronutrient obtained through the diet, plays a crucial role in lung development and contributes to lung regeneration. We aimed to investigate its effect on adult ...
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Robert Koch: centenary of the discovery of the tubercle bacillus, 1882.
This is an account of the life and work of Robert Koch (1843-1910), Nobel Laureate in Medicine and a founder of the science of bacteriology. In particular, Koch's researches into tuberculosis are ...