[PDF] Top 20 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the risk of stroke: a systematic review protocol

... the review will be conducted in two ...the risk of missing potentially relevant studies, a deliberately lenient approach will be adopted for this fi rst level of screening (by title and ... See full document

... Several limitations of this review are acknowledged. Variance in treatment protocol between studies is likely to have influenced results. The number of treatments varied considerably between studies, though ... See full document

... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease that makes it difficult to breathe; often seeming like one is short of ...treatable disease. Its pulmonary ... See full document

... We searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Library databases (search date: November 2, 2014). The search terms were “COPD” AND “LAMA” AND ([“ICS” AND “LABA”] OR ICS/LABA) AND randomized protocol design. LAMAs ... See full document

... with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is suboptimal and has negative impacts on survival and health care ...No systematic review has examined the effectiveness of ... See full document

... analysis. According to the PEDro scale, the manuscript scores ranged from six to nine points. Cross-sectional stud- ies comprised 87.5% of the trials, and the most commonly assessed outcome variables were postural ... See full document

... Major risk factors for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) include older age and a history of smoking, which predispose to several pulmonary and extra-pulmonary ...We review the ... See full document

... 3216 citations were identified from the databases in the original search; seven studies that met the eligibility criteria of the review, of which 2 were randomized control trials and 5 were cohort studies, were ... See full document

... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic, irreversible lung disease which is characterized by progressive deterioration of lung function ...Besides ... See full document

... both systematic reviews and consensus methods or those developed following the NICE protocol [29], b) Medium Quality Evidence: guidelines/pathways based on system- atic review only or based on other ... See full document

... Cochrane risk of bias. Dissemination: The systematic review will be published in a peer-reviewed ...The review will also be disseminated electronically and in ...the review will be ... See full document

... This review has several ...this review was designed to find cohort studies that had investigated the strength of the longitudinal association between depression, anxiety or panic disorder, and HRQoL in COPD ... See full document

... and/or pulmonary tuberculosis (n = 26) and the absence or se- vere asymmetry of the pectoralis muscle due to nerve denervation or disability (n = 21) were excluded (n = ...Institutional Review Board of the ... See full document

... In the present study, the number of hospitalizations due to COPD exacerbations in patients with frequent re-admissions decreased by 56% after introduction of a case manager, which contributes to one of the main goals of ... See full document

... capacity, pulmonary function, and quality of life in COPD ...present systematic review showed that WBVT had beneficial effects on functional exercise capacity, which was mainly measured by 6-MWD and ... See full document

... excess risk of adverse cardiovascular (CV) outcomes in patients with ...the risk of adverse CV outcomes was the Lung Health Study ...increased risk of CV death than smokers receiving ... See full document

... on Obstructive Lung Disease Criteria for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseas: Several different definitions have existed for COPD (American Thoracic Society, 1995; Mannino, ...on ... See full document

... study protocol has limitations which must be ...if protocol interventions represent a consensus among centers, between-center differences in the experience of NPPV use may still affect the results of this ... See full document

... The healthy volunteers were selected from among subjects with normal lung function and without histories of smoking, recent respiratory tract diseases, or cardiopulmonary disease. COPD was diagnosed according to ... See full document

... Organisms isolated in western countries are different from our country. In contrast to Western literature , review of Indian literature shows no isolates of Haemophilus influenzae in AECOPD patients. This possible ... See full document