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Relationship between exacerbation frequency and lung function decline in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London EC1A 7BE, UK Correspondence to: Professor J A Wedzicha, Academic Unit of Respiratory ...
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P117 Comparison of indices of nutritional status in prediction of in-hospital mortality and early readmission of patients with acute exacerbations of COPD

Introduction and objectives In patients hospitalised with an acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD), low body mass index (BMI) predicts in-hospital death. The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) ...
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Understanding the impact of second-hand smoke exposure on clinical outcomes in participants with COPD in the SPIROMICS cohort

1 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA 3 University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, ...
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Pleuropulmonary manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus

Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Dr J P Lynch III, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical ...
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Increasing incidence of asbestosis worldwide, 1990–2017: results from the Global Burden of Disease study 2017

Correspondence to Professor Weihong Chen, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, ...
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S32 Epidemiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the uk: findings from the british lung foundation’s ‘respiratory health of the nation’ project

Background We performed an analysis of UK respiratory disease epidemiology covering 2004–2012. Findings pertaining to COPD are presented here. Methods Prevalence and incidence rates were estimated ...
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Obesity and the lung: 5 · Obesity and COPD

Department of Human Biology, Nutrition and Toxicology Research Institute (NUTRIM), Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands Dr A M W J Schols, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and ...
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Obesity and the lung: 1 · Epidemiology

Obesity is the most common metabolic disease in the world and its prevalence has been increasing over several decades. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that, by 2015, around 700 million ...
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Pulmonary sarcoidosis and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)

State University of New York - Health Science Center at Brooklyn & Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA Correspondence to: Dr L S Efferen, Department of Medicine, Long Island Jewish ...
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Comparison of spontaneous and induced sputum for investigation of airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Academic Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London Chest Hospital, London E2 9JX, UK Dr J A Wedzicha. BACKGROUND Although sputum ...
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Airflow obstruction in bronchiectasis: correlation between computed tomography features and pulmonary function tests

BACKGROUND An obstructive defect is usual in bronchiectasis, but the pathophysiological basis of airflow obstruction remains uncertain. High resolution computed tomographic (CT) scanning now allows ...
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Relation between phase of the menstrual cycle and asthma presentations in the emergency department

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and ...