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Airway bacterial colonization: The missing link between COPD and cardiovascular events?
30 April 2012
Summary: Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide and, according to the World Health Organization, its prevalence will double by 2020. CO...
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Salvatore Fuschillo,
Michele Martucci,
Claudio F. Donner,
Giovanni Balzano
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915-923
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| Asthma and Allergy |
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Mental health among adults with asthma and chronic bronchitis. A population-based study in Spain
26 April 2012
Summary: Objectives: To analyze the conditions of psychological dysfunction and positive mental health in patients with asthma and chronic bronchitis (CB), as compared to healthy individuals, and to i...
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Javier de Miguel Diez,
Rodrigo Jimenez García,
Valentin Hernandez Barrera,
Paula Rodríguez Rodríguez,
Luis Puente Maestu,
Pilar Carrasco Garrido
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924-932
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Association between asthma medications and suicidal ideation in adult asthmatics
11 April 2012
Summary: Background: Asthma has been associated with suicidal ideation (SI), though the mechanisms remain poorly understood. Some asthma medications (e.g., theophylline and beta-2 adrenergic agonists)...
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Helene Favreau,
Simon L. Bacon,
Maryann Joseph,
Manon Labrecque,
Kim L. Lavoie
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933-941
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Serologic allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA-S): Long-term outcomes
26 March 2012
Summary: Background and aim: ABPA is radiologically classified on the presence or absence of central bronchiectasis (CB) as ABPA-CB and serologic ABPA (ABPA-S) respectively. Few studies have described...
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Ritesh Agarwal,
Mandeep Garg,
Ashutosh N. Aggarwal,
Biman Saikia,
Dheeraj Gupta,
Arunaloke Chakrabarti
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942-947
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Association of adult-onset asthma with specific cardiovascular conditions
26 March 2012
Summary: Background: While asthma is known to be associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD), the relation to specific manifestations of CVD has not been previously described. Our objective was to ex...
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Hwa Mu Lee,
Steven T. Truong,
Nathan D. Wong
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948-953
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| COPD |
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Downregulation of lung mitochondrial prohibitin in COPD
23 April 2012
Summary: Prohibitins (PHB1 and PHB2) are versatile proteins located at the inner mitochondrial membrane, maintaining normal mitochondrial function and morphology. They interact with the NADH dehydroge...
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Nikolaos Soulitzis,
Eirini Neofytou,
Maria Psarrou,
Aristotelis Anagnostis,
Nektarios Tavernarakis,
Nikolaos Siafakas,
Eleni G. Tzortzaki
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954-961
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Daily step counts in a US cohort with COPD
23 April 2012
Summary: Background: Baseline values for daily step counts in US adults with COPD and knowledge of its accurate measurement, natural change over time, and independent relationships with measures of CO...
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Marilyn L. Moy,
Valery A. Danilack,
Nicole A. Weston,
Eric Garshick
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962-969
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A randomized, double-blind dose-ranging study of the novel LAMA GSK573719 in patients with COPD
12 April 2012
Summary: Background: This study evaluated the dose-response and dosing interval of the novel long-acting muscarinic receptor antagonist (LAMA) GSK573719 in patients with COPD. Methods: This randomized...
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James F. Donohue,
Antonio Anzueto,
Jean Brooks,
Rashmi Mehta,
Christopher Kalberg,
Glenn Crater
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970-979
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COPD among non-smokers – Report from the Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden (OLIN) studies
12 April 2012
Summary: Background: In westernized countries smoking and increasing age are the most important risk factors for COPD. Prevalence and risk factors of COPD among non-smokers are not well studied. Aim: ...
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Stig Hagstad,
Linda Ekerljung,
Anne Lindberg,
Helena Backman,
Eva Rönmark,
Bo Lundbäck
et al.
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980-988
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How far is real life from COPD therapy guidelines? An Italian observational study
06 April 2012
Summary: Background: According to the GOLD international guidelines, the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) should be proportional to the severity of airflow obstruction graded ...
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Antonio Corrado,
Andrea Rossi
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989-997
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Pain in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
23 April 2012
Summary: Introduction: The prevalence and characteristics of pain are not known in COPD patients. The purposes of this study were to determine if pain is more common in COPD patients than in healthy p...
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Bahareh HajGhanbari,
Liisa Holsti,
Jeremy D. Road,
W. Darlene Reid
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998-1005
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| Environmental & Occupational Lung Disease |
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Respiratory movement and pain thresholds in airway environmental sensitivity, asthma and COPD
17 April 2012
Summary: Introduction: Patients with “sensory hyperreactivity” (SHR) have airway environmental sensitivity, chronic cough and dyspnoea. Cough, chest discomfort and sense of difficulties getting air ar...
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Ewa-Lena Johansson,
Ewa Ternesten-Hasséus,
Monika Fagevik Olsén,
Eva Millqvist
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1006-1013
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| Interstitial Lung Disease |
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Diagnostic value of CD103 expression in bronchoalveolar lymphocytes in sarcoidosis
26 April 2012
Summary: Background: Pulmonary sarcoidosis is frequently characterized by a CD4+/CD8+ ratio ≥3.5 in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF), although up to 40% of the cases present a normal or even decrea...
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Patrícia Caetano Mota,
António Morais,
Carmo Palmares,
Marília Beltrão,
Natália Melo,
Ana Cristina Santos,
Luís Delgado
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1014-1020
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Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage in immunocompetent patients: Etiologies and prognosis revisited
27 April 2012
Summary: Background: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) represents a diagnostic challenge of acute respiratory failure. Prompt identification of the underlying cause of DAH and initiation of appropriat...
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Nicolas de Prost,
Antoine Parrot,
Elise Cuquemelle,
Clément Picard,
Martine Antoine,
Joceline Fleury-Feith,
Charles Mayaud,
Jean-Jacques Boffa,
Muriel Fartoukh,
Jacques Cadranel
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1021-1032
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Obstructive sleep apnea does not promote esophageal reflux in fibrosing interstitial lung disease
23 April 2012
Summary: Background: In patients with fibrosing interstitial lung disease (fILD), gastroesophageal reflux (GER) is highly prevalent, perhaps because of the effects of lung fibrosis on altering intrath...
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Manju Pillai,
Amy L. Olson,
Tristan J. Huie,
Joshua J. Solomon,
Evans R. Fernandez-Perez,
Kevin K. Brown,
Phillip Hanna,
Teofilo Lee-Chiong,
Jeffrey J. Swigris
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1033-1039
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Lung disease with anti-CCP antibodies but not rheumatoid arthritis or connective tissue disease
16 April 2012
Summary: Objective: We sought to characterize a novel cohort of patients with lung disease, anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody positivity, without rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or other conn...
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Aryeh Fischer,
Joshua J. Solomon,
Roland M. du Bois,
Kevin D. Deane,
Amy L. Olson,
Evans R. Fernandez-Perez,
Tristan J. Huie,
Allen D. Stevens,
Mary B. Gill,
Avi M. Rabinovitch,
David A. Lynch,
David A. Burns,
Isabel S. Pineiro,
Steve D. Groshong,
Rosane D. Duarte Achcar,
Kevin K. Brown,
Richard J. Martin,
Jeffrey J. Swigris
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1040-1047
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Low prevalence of pulmonary involvement in children with inflammatory bowel disease
20 April 2012
Summary: Background: Since extraintestinal sites of inflammation have been demonstrated in patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), both entities are regarded as systemic disord...
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Joanna Peradzyńska,
Katarzyna Krenke,
Joanna Lange,
Aleksandra Banaszkiewicz,
Izabela Łazowska-Przeorek,
Andrzej Radzikowski,
Marek Kulus
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1048-1054
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| Pulmonary Infections |
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Smoking cessation and the risk of hospitalization for pneumonia
27 April 2012
Summary: Background: Smoking increases the risk of hospitalization for pneumonia, yet it is unknown if smoking cessation changes this risk. We sought to determine if smoking cessation and the duration...
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Laura M. Cecere,
Emily C. Williams,
Haili Sun,
Chris L. Bryson,
Brendan J. Clark,
Katharine A. Bradley,
David H. Au
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1055-1062
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| Short Communication |
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External beam radiation therapy is safe and effective in treating primary pulmonary amyloidosis
14 March 2012
Summary: The aim of the prospective study was to explore the safety and effectiveness of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) in three patients with biopsy proven primary pulmonary amyloidosis, incl...
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Shaohua Ren,
Gang Ren
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1063-1069
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