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Is there a correlation between OSAS duration/severity and carotid intima-media thickness?
10 February 2012
Marco Matteo Ciccone, Pietro Scicchitano, Gianfranco Mitacchione, Annapaola Zito, Michele Gesualdo, Paola Caputo, Mario Francesco Damiani, Marco Sassara, Stefano Favale, Onofrio Resta, Pierluigi Carratù
Summary: Background: Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) is a common airways disease recognized as an independent cardiovascular risk factor. It is often associated with obesity, diabetes and dysl...
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Determinants of physical activity in daily life in candidates for lung transplantation
06 February 2012
D. Langer, M.A. Cebrià i Iranzo, C. Burtin, S.E. Verleden, B.M. Vanaudenaerde, T. Troosters, M. Decramer, G.M. Verleden, R. Gosselink
Summary: Background: Participation in daily physical activity (PA) has never been objectively assessed in candidates for lung transplantation (LTx). The main research questions were: 1) How active are...
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Airway obstruction lability helps distinguish levels of disease activity in asthma
02 February 2012
Steven Greenberg, Nancy Liu, Amarjot Kaur, Mani Lakshminarayanan, Yijie Zhou, Linda M. Nelsen, Steven S. Smugar, Gertrude Noonan, Theodore F. Reiss, Barbara A. Knorr
Summary: Classifying disease activity in asthma relies on clinical and physiological variables, but these variables do not capture all aspects of asthma that distinguish levels of disease activity. We...
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Ethnic and racial differences in the presence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis at death
01 February 2012
Jeffrey J. Swigris, Amy L. Olson, Tristan J. Huie, Evans R. Fernandez-Perez, Joshua Solomon, David Sprunger, Kevin K. Brown
Summary: Background: In studies of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), whites makeup the vast majority of subjects. Whether ethnic/racial differences in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis occur in the gen...
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HIV and asthma, is there an association?
30 January 2012
Jessica A. Kynyk, Jonathan P. Parsons, Michael F. Para, Susan L. Koletar, Philip T. Diaz, John G. Mastronarde
Summary: Objective: To evaluate whether asthma and airway hyper-responsiveness are associated with HIV infection. Methods: We reviewed the literature on HIV-associated pulmonary diseases, pulmonary sy...
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