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Analysis of factors influencing the frequency of primary care visits among diabetic patients in two provinces in China

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2019
Background Community health services have played an important role in the prevention and control of diabetes in China. The aims of this study were to examine the frequency of visits to community clinics for diabetic care services, to assess factors ...
Jinwen Wang   +4 more
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The availability, cost, and affordability of essential medicines for asthma and COPD in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

open access: yesThe Lancet Global Health, 2022
Summary: Background: Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) cause a considerable burden of morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Marie Stolbrink, BMBCh   +11 more
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Sinonasal Findings on Paranasal Computed Tomography in Patients Presenting with Facial Pain

open access: yesOtorhinolaryngology and Facial Plastic Surgery, 2023
Background: Facial pain is one of the common complaints in otolaryngology. Patients often self-diagnose facial pain as "sinusitis". The sinonasal source of facial pain and headache could be one of the possible etiologies, which needs to be confirmed by ...
Nasim Raad   +3 more
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Clinical significance of epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): potential target for prevention of airway fibrosis and lung cancer

open access: yesClinical and Translational Medicine, 2014
Unfortunately, the research effort directed into chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been disproportionately weak compared to its social importance, and indeed it is the least researched of all common chronic conditions.
Sukhwinder Singh Sohal   +2 more
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Injury triggers fascia fibroblast collective cell migration to drive scar formation through N-cadherin

open access: yesNature Communications, 2020
Extensive scars develop in deep wounds as opposed to superficial wounds but it is unclear why. Here, the authors use live imaging of physiologic wounds and scars formed ex vivo to show that fascia fibroblasts upregulate N-cadherin allowing coordinated ...
Dongsheng Jiang   +18 more
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Cardiac Function in Brain Death, Usage of Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring

open access: yesArchives of Anesthesia and Critical Care, 2022
Background: This study used advanced hemodynamic monitoring along with simultaneous echocardiography to assess donated heart function of brain death patients using advanced hemodynamic monitoring and its efficacy in organ donation.
Alireza Jahangirifard   +6 more
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NOVEL INSIGHTS INTO CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD): AN OVERVIEW [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Medical Journal Respiratory, 2014
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is mainly caused by smoking and presents with shortness of breath that is progressive and irreversible. It is a worldwide health problem and the fourth most common cause of chronic disability and mortality ...
Sukhwinder Singh Sohal   +5 more
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Chronic lung diseases: entangled in extracellular matrix

open access: yesEuropean Respiratory Review, 2022
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is the scaffold that provides structure and support to all organs, including the lung; however, it is also much more than this. The ECM provides biochemical and biomechanical cues to cells that reside or transit through this micro-environment, instructing their responses.
Janette K. Burgess, Martin C. Harmsen
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Pulmonary Thromboembolism Followed by Deep Vein Thrombosis In A Young Man With G6PD Deficiency After ChAd0x1 nCoV-19 Vaccine Administration

open access: yesVaccine Research, 2021
Recently the term vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) used for individual which have thrombotic phenomena followed by ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AstraZeneca) administration against SARS coronavirus.
Arda Kiani   +5 more
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Relationship between Angiogenic Squamous Dysplasia and Bronchogenic Carcinoma in Patients Undergoing White Light Bronchoscopy

open access: yesCanadian Respiratory Journal, 2012
OBJECTIVE: To better understand the characteristic morphology of angiogenic squamous dysplasia (ASD) and its association with different types of common bronchogenic carcinomas using routine white light bronchoscopy.
Shirin Karimi   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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