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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and glucose metabolism: a bitter sweet symphony
Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2012 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus are common and underdiagnosed medical conditions. It was predicted that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease will be the third leading cause of death worldwide by 2020.
Mirrakhimov Aibek E
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PulmoBell: Home-based Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assistive Technology for People with COPD [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) can be fatal and is challenging to live with due to its severe symptoms. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is one of the managements means to maintain COPD in a stable status. However, implementation of PR in the UK has been challenging due to the environmental and personal barriers faced by patients, which ...
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Respiratory Research, 2019 Background Bilirubin has antioxidant properties against chronic respiratory diseases. However, previous studies are limited by acquisition of serum bilirubin level at one time point and its analysis with clinical parameters.
Ah Young Leem +7 more
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Using Soft Computer Techniques on Smart Devices for Monitoring Chronic Diseases: the CHRONIOUS case [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 CHRONIOUS is an Open, Ubiquitous and Adaptive Chronic Disease Management Platform for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease(COPD) Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Renal Insufficiency. It consists of several modules: an ontology based literature search engine, a rule based decision support system, remote sensors interacting with lifestyle interfaces ...
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AntioxidantsOxidative stress in the human lung is caused by both internal (e.g., inflammation) and external stressors (smoking, pollution, and infection) to drive pathology in a number of lung diseases.
Corinne Hamblet +10 more
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The Egyptian Journal of Bronchology, 2022 Background Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are the major airway diseases and are increasingly important causes of mortality, morbidity, and disability globally.
Muhammad Ashraf Khan
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DPVis: Visual Analytics with Hidden Markov Models for Disease Progression Pathways [PDF]
, 2019 Clinical researchers use disease progression models to understand patient status and characterize progression patterns from longitudinal health records. One approach for disease progression modeling is to describe patient status using a small number of states that represent distinctive distributions over a set of observed measures. Hidden Markov models
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Transfer learning for multi-center classification of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [PDF]
, 2017 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease which can be quantified using chest computed tomography (CT) scans. Recent studies have shown that COPD can be automatically diagnosed using weakly supervised learning of intensity and texture distributions.
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Length-of-stay times in hospital for COVID-19 patients using the smoothed Beran's estimator with bootstrap bandwidth selection [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The survival function of length-of-stay in hospital ward and ICU for COVID-19 patients is studied in this paper. Flexible statistical methods are used to estimate this survival function given relevant covariates such as age, sex, obesity and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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CAT-test significance in life quality assessment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [PDF]
Саратовский научно-медицинский журнал, 2010 Comprehensive analysis of the impact of complex vaccination against pneumococcus, Haemophilus influenzae type b and influenza on performance CAT-test 6 months after vaccination in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease compared with ...
Protasov A.D. +2 more
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