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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

BMJ, 2003
Three distinct disorders combine to produce chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): emphysema, peripheral airway disease or bronchospasm, and chronic bronchitis. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is defined as a disease state characterized by airflow limitation that is not fully reversible.
David, Price, Martin, Duerden
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a complex comorbidity of lung cancer [PDF]

, 2011
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major burden throughout the world. It is associated with a significantly increased incidence of lung cancer and may influence treatment options and outcome.
Derek Grose MRCP, FRCR, Robert Milroy, Grose, Derek, Milroy, Robert   +3 more
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [PDF]

The Lancet, 1998
Acute exacerbations of underlying COPD are a common cause of respiratory deterioration. Developments have been made in preventive measures, but admission to hospital for acute exacerbations can be expected to remain common. Several expert consensus guidelines have been published to define the appropriate management of COPD patients.
Madison, J Mark, Irwin, Richard S
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Adjunctive treatment with oral AKL1, a botanical nutraceutical, in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [PDF]

, 2014
Claire Brockwell,1 Sundari Ampikaipakan,1,2 Darren W Sexton,1 David Price,3,4 Daryl Freeman,5 Mike Thomas,6 Muzammil Ali,4 Andrew M Wilson1,21Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; 2Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital ...
Freeman, D, Wilson, AM, Thomas, Mike, Brockwell, Claire, Ampikaipakan, Sundari, Thomas M, Ampikaipakan, S, Ali, M, Sexton, Darren W., Freeman, Daryl, Brockwell C, Ampikaipakan S, Thomas, M., Wilson, Andrew M., Brockwell, C, Freeman D, Ali M, Sexton, DW, Sexton DW, Price, D, Price, David, Ali, Muzammil, Thomas, M, Price D, Wilson AM   +24 more
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Management and prevention of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations: a state of the art review [PDF]

, 2009
Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are important events in the natural history of this prevalent and devastating condition. This review provides a concise, state of the art summary on prevention and management of exacerbations.
Hurst, JR, Hurst John R, Wedzicha Jadwiga A, Wedzicha, JA, John R Hurst, Jadwiga A Wedzicha   +5 more
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A comparison of HTLV-1 Infection Frequency in Patients with or without Tuberculosis [PDF]

Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, 2014
Introduction: To recognize the predisposing factors in tuberculosis as an endemic infection in Northeast province of Iran, this study was aimed to evaluate whether HumanT-lymphocyte type 1 (HTLV-I) as an immunosuppressive factor increases the risk of ...
Leila Ghofraniha, Elham Ghalenavi, Davood Attaran, Mohammad Towhidi, Hooshang Rafatpanah, Mohamad Khajehdaloee, Mohamad Reza Sarvghad Moghadam   +6 more
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Auditory function assessment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

SAGE Open Medicine, 2023
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a multisystem disease with multiple comorbidities. Hearing is dependent on the cochlear functions that may be affected by oxygenation. Affection of hearing is problematic and represents a major concern
Hoda A Eid, Heba H Eltrawy, Shaimaa E Kabil, Hanaa A Abou-Elhassan, Rania Abdelshafy, Ahmed Aboseif, Abdullah M Albalsha, Fawzy M Omar, Mohamed Heggy, Mostafa A Ibrahim, Ashraf Moursi, Ahmed F Elbwab, Moaz Atef, Ahmed E Kabil   +13 more
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Prediction of disease progression, treatment response and dropout in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). [PDF]

, 2014
Drug development in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been characterised by unacceptably high failure rates. In addition to the poor sensitivity in forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), numerous causes are known to contribute to ...
Musuamba, F.T., O. Della Pasqua, H. J. Maas, A. Facius, Della Pasqua, O., Della Pasqua, O, Yang, S., M. Danhof, D. Teutonico, Facius, A, Musuamba, FT, Teutonico, D, Yang, S, Facius, A., Danhof, M., S. Yang, Teutonico, D., Maas, H.J., Maas, HJ, Danhof, M, F. T. Musuamba   +20 more
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Association of clonal hematopoiesis with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Blood, 2021
Clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) is an age-related phenomenon that induces inflammation. Since CHIP is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, Miller and colleagues investigated the association between CHIP and chronic obstructive
P. Miller, D. Qiao, J. Rojas-Quintero, M. Honigberg, A. Sperling, C. Gibson, A. Bick, A. Niroula, M. McConkey, Brittany Sandoval, Brian C Miller, Weiwei Shi, Kaushik Viswanathan, Matthew J. Leventhal, L. Werner, M. Moll, B. Cade, R. Barr, A. Correa, L. Cupples, Sina A. Gharib, D. Jain, S. Gogarten, L. Lange, Stephanie A. London, A. Manichaikul, G. O'Connor, E. Oelsner, S. Redline, S. Rich, J. Rotter, V. Ramachandran, Bing Yu, L. Sholl, D. Neuberg, Siddhartha Jaiswal, B. Levy, C. Owen, P. Natarajan, E. Silverman, Peter van Galen, Y. Tesfaigzi, M. Cho, B. Ebert   +43 more
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The role of airway infection in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [PDF]

, 2006
PhDThis. thesis examines the role of respiratory bacterial and viral infection in the natural history of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. The rationale for this study is basedu pon previous data demonstratingt hat airway bacterial colonisationi s
Wilkinson, Thomas Michael Alan
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