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- 1From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Tobacco smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in America, claiming 450,000 lives annually. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, caused by smoking in the vast majority of cases, became...
- 2From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Exacerbations, a leading cause of hospitalization in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), affect the quality of life and prognosis. Treatment recommendations as provided in the...
- 3From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Therapeutic reference pricing (TRP) based on the WHO daily defined dose (DDD) is a method frequently employed for the cost-containment of pharmaceuticals. Our objective was to compare average drug use in...
- 4From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground No population study has explored the population distribution of adult asthma in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The objective is to estimate asthma prevalence in general population in UAE. Methods...
- 5From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The measurement of fractional concentration of nitric oxide in exhaled air (FeNO) is valuable for the assessment of airway inflammation. Offline measurement of FeNO has been used in some epidemiologic...
- 6From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground The aim of our study was to investigate the predictive value of the biomarkers interleukin 6 (IL-6), interleukin 10 (IL-10) and lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) compared with clinical CRB and...
- 7From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The 6-minute walk test evaluates the effect of pharmacologic intervention in adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) but, for reasons of compliance or reliability, may not be appropriate for...
- 8From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Bronchodilator response in patients with asthma is evaluated based on post-bronchodilator increase in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV.sub.1) and forced vital capacity (FVC). However, the need...
- 9From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In some situations, practice guidelines do not provide firm evidence-based guidance regarding COPD treatment choices, especially when large trials have failed to identify subgroups of particularly good or...
- 10From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Titanium dioxide (TiO.sub.2) and carbon black (CB) nanoparticles (NPs) have biological effects that could aggravate pulmonary emphysema. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether pulmonary...
- 11From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Health status provides valuable information, complementary to spirometry and improvement of health status has become an important treatment goal in COPD management. We compared the usefulness and validity...
- 12From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The design of new interventions to improve health care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requires knowledge about what patients with an acute exacerbation experience as...
- 13From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Hepatic hydrothorax is a major pulmonary complication of liver disease occurring in up to 5-10% of patients with cirrhosis. Case presentation We report four observations of the development of...
- 14From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Little is known concerning the degree to which initiation of sildenafil for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) impacts patterns of healthcare utilization and costs. Methods Using a large US health...
- 15From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground In well-child care it is difficult to determine whether preschool children with asthma symptoms actually have or will develop asthma at school age. The PIAMA (Prevention and Incidence of Asthma and Mite...
- 16From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground The Influenza A H1N1 virus can be transmitted via direct, indirect, and airborne route to non-infected subjects when an infected patient coughs, which expels a number of different sized droplets to the...
- 17From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The effects of obesity on pulmonary functions have not been addressed previously among Saudi population. We aim to study the effects of obesity on spirometry tests among healthy non-smoking adults....
- 18From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) may be more severe in those with asthma or COPD and these patients are more frequently in need of health care. The aim of the study was to describe the frequency of RTI...
- 19From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground The association between endotoxin exposure and asthma is complex and has been associated with rural living. We examined the relationship between domestic endotoxin and asthma or wheeze among rural...
- 20From: BMC Pulmonary Medicine. (Vol. 12, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackgound Granulomatosis with polyangitis (Wegener's) is a vasculitic disease predominantly affecting the lungs, skin, kidneys, ears, nose and throat. Mycobacterium abscessus is an uncommon rapidly growing...