airflow obstruction
Airflow obstruction: is it asthma or is it COPD?
... Abstract: Despite the availability of guideline recommendations, diagnostic confusion between COPD and asthma appears common, and often it is very difficult to decide whether the obstruction is caused by asthma or ...
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Mucus plugs in patients with asthma linked to eosinophilia and airflow obstruction
... of airflow obstruction in acute severe (fatal) asthma (1, 2), the role of mucus plugs in the pathophysiology of airflow obstruction in chronic severe asthma is poorly ...of airflow ...
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C-reactive protein levels, airflow obstruction, and chronic kidney disease
... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an important public health problem [1] and a major cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world [2]. It is predicted to become the third leading cause of death ...
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Misidentification of airflow obstruction: prevalence and clinical significance in an epidemiological study
... Background: The fixed threshold criterion for the ratio of forced expiratory volume in the first second to forced vital capacity (FEV 1 /FVC) ,0.7 is widely applied for diagnosis of airflow obstruction ...
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Development of the Lung Function Questionnaire (LFQ) to identify airflow obstruction
... NHANES survey is a very large representative sample of US patients who are arguably comparable to primary care popula- tions in the United States. The NHANES data were used to select questions for further validation ...
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Prevalence of airflow obstruction in patients with stable systolic heart failure
... with airflow obstruction could have asthma and not ...of airflow obstruction in patients with HF did not find any effect of an inhaled bronchodilator [9] and the risk of undiagnosed asthma in ...
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Occupational exposures to solvents and metals are associated with fixed airflow obstruction
... of airflow obstruction among women who had occupational exposure to chlorinated solvents in our study might be related to an increased number for women to work in jobs with exposure to chlorinated solvents ...
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Prevalence of Irreversible Airflow Obstruction among Chronic Asthmatics in Government Royapettah Hospital
... airway obstruction and COPD is irreversible airway obstruction involving the airway mucosal ...airway obstruction has been the clinical modality of differentiating COPD and bronchial ...persistent ...
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The association between chronic airflow obstruction and poverty in 12 sites of the multinational BOLD study.
... substantial problem in this case as the evidence from mortality rates strongly suggests that the association with poverty is predominantly seen among countries with a per capita GNI below approximately US$20,000 per ...
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Development of a self-scored persistent airflow obstruction screening questionnaire in a general Japanese population: the Hisayama study
... Development of a self-scored persistent airflow obstruction screening questionnaire in a general Japanese population: the hisayama study.. Takuya samukawa 1, *.[r] ...
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Chronic airflow obstruction in Tanzania – a cross-sectional study
... Chronic airflow obstruction may begin early in life and investigation of first signs may be missed by applying the ATS/ERS or GOLD criteria only – the predominant method of analysis used in studies from ...
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Impact of BMI on exacerbation and medical care expenses in subjects with mild to moderate airflow obstruction
... It is extremely difficult to enroll patients with mild, asymp- tomatic COPD who rarely visit hospital, in clinical trials or cohort studies, and this results in lack of data on the clinical fea- tures of those patients. ...
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Airflow Obstruction and Use of Solid Fuels for Cooking or Heating: BOLD Results
... 1) airflow obstruction as a post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC<lower limit of normal (LLN) (19), based on reference equations for Caucasians from the third US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey ...
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<p>Efficacy of aclidinium/formoterol 400/12 µg, analyzed by airflow obstruction severity, age, sex, and exacerbation history: pooled analysis of ACLIFORM and AUGMENT</p>
... severe airflow obstruction compared with moderate airflow obstruction; however, no statistical analysis was conducted between these ...moderate airflow obstruction severity; ...
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Delay of airway epithelial wound repair in COPD is associated with airflow obstruction severity
... Repair of airway epithelium after injury is critical for the maintenance of the airway epithelial structure and function. In our study, we analyzed bronchial epithelium repair in the first steps of airway epithelial ...
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Lung function decline in relation to diagnostic criteria for airflow obstruction in respiratory symptomatic subjects
... for airflow obstruc- tion and reported high rates of ‘ false-positive ’ diagnostic interpretations when the ...defining airflow obstruction for diagnostic purposes in subjects who seek medical ...
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Association of IREB2 and CHRNA3polymorphisms with airflow obstruction in severe alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
... Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have revolu- tionized the identification of susceptibility genes for com- plex diseases. Three recent GWA studies showed that SNPs in a region of chromosome 15q25 were signifi- ...
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Can Peak Expiratory Flow Predict Airflow Obstruction in Children With Asthma?
... airway obstruction, because the pa- tient with air trapping may be able to generate a quick burst of air at the beginning of a forced exhalation, sufficient to give a normal PEF ...
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Pectoralis muscle area and mortality in smokers without airflow obstruction
... flow obstruction (hereafter referred to as at-risk smokers) present changes in skeletal muscle structure and have low muscle mass similar to those with COPD ...
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Heterogeneous burden of lung disease in smokers with borderline airflow obstruction
... airway obstruction and smokers with mild, moderate and severe COPD, with the goals of identi- fying new COPD subgroups and intermediate markers of disease progression ...
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