Section edited by Giuseppe Verlato
This section concerns all aspects of the epidemiology of pulmonary disorders including but not limited to: cohort studies, genetic association studies, and prevalence studies.
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Main treatable Chronic Respiratory Diseases (CRDs) like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Bronchial Asthma (BA) and Allergic Rhinitis (AR) are underdiagnosed and undertreated worldwide. CORE study was...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:131
Published on: 10 October 2017
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Pneumonia is the most common cause of death in patients with dementia, but the outcomes of patients with dementia hospitalized with pneumonia are poorly understood. We sought to illuminate the association betw...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:128
Published on: 6 October 2017
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Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FENO) is used to assess of airway inflammation; diagnose asthma and monitor adherence to advised therapy. Reliable and accurate reference values for FENO are needed for both non-s...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:118
Published on: 25 August 2017
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Systemic inflammation has been associated with reduced pulmonary function in individuals with and without chronic medical conditions. Individuals with chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) have clinical characteris...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:113
Published on: 15 August 2017
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Asthma exacerbation may require a visit to the emergency room as well as hospitalization and can occasionally be fatal. However, there is limited information about the prognostic factors for asthma exacerbatio...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:108
Published on: 4 August 2017
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The role of air pollution in increasing susceptibility to respiratory tract infections in the cystic fibrosis (CF) population has not been well described. We recently demonstrated that chronic PM2.5 exposure is a...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:106
Published on: 27 July 2017
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To estimate the prevalence of respiratory symptoms in individuals with type 2 diabetes, as compared to the general population.
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:101
Published on: 17 July 2017
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Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a strong risk factor for respiratory morbidity in children born preterm. Our aims were to evaluate lung function in adolescents born preterm with and without a history of BP...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:97
Published on: 30 June 2017
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Inadequate housing, low family income, household smoking, personal smoking status, and poor schooling are some of the conditions that have been significantly associated with the prevalence and incidence of chr...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:95
Published on: 29 June 2017
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world’s most devastating public health threats. Our goal is to evaluate whether the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) ...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:82
Published on: 4 May 2017
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Fluoroscopy is considered the most accurate method to evaluate the diaphragm, yet most existing methods for measuring diaphragmatic mobility using fluoroscopy are complex. To assess the validity and reliabilit...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:62
Published on: 17 April 2017
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Compliance with CPAP treatment for OSAS is not reliably predicted by the severity of symptoms or physiological variables. We examined a range of factors which could be measured before CPAP initiation to look f...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:56
Published on: 22 March 2017
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Epigenetic variations in peripheral blood have potential as biomarkers for disease. This systematic review assesses the association of lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with DNA me...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:54
Published on: 20 March 2017
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Breathlessness is a frequently occurring symptom of cardiorespiratory conditions and is a common cause of emergency department presentation. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of acute-on-chr...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:53
Published on: 20 March 2017
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Guidelines suggest observation stays are appropriate for pulmonary embolism (PE) patients at low-risk for early mortality. We sought to assess agreement between United States (US) observation management of PE ...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:37
Published on: 13 February 2017
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Acute lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) are a frequent cause of hospitalization and mortality in South Africa; however, existing respiratory severity scores may underestimate mortality risk in HIV-infe...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:28
Published on: 2 February 2017
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Healthcare utilization data are increasingly used for chronic disease surveillance. Nevertheless, no standard criteria for estimating prevalence of high-impact diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary d...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:20
Published on: 19 January 2017
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Assess if people who lived or worked in an area polluted after an oil tank explosion had persistent respiratory health impairment as compared to a non-exposed population 5.5 years after the event.
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:18
Published on: 17 January 2017
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In Japan and other societies with rapidly aging populations, recurrent pneumonia (RP) is a major clinical problem yet only limited information exists regarding the burden of this disease.
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:12
Published on: 11 January 2017
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Flexible bronchoscopy is pivotal for the diagnosis of most respiratory diseases. A flexible bronchoscopy unit (FBU) was created in 2008 in the Preah Kossamak university hospital (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) through ...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:10
Published on: 10 January 2017
