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Association between acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and short-term exposure to ambient air pollutants in France

Environmental Health
Background Ambient air pollution is recognized as a major risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which is the third leading cause of death worldwide.
Damien Basille, Lola Soriot, Florence Weppe, Peggy Desmettres, Paulo Henriques, Nicolas Benoit, Stéphanie Devaux, Momar Diouf, Vincent Jounieaux, Claire Andrejak   +9 more
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Long-term trajectories of reproductive and pituitary-adrenal-thyroid hormones in young males following Omicron BA.2 infection: a two-year prospective cohort study

Frontiers in Endocrinology
ObjectiveTo investigate the longitudinal changes and temporal patterns of reproductive, thyroid, and adrenal hormones in young males following SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 infection, using a 3-month post-infection convalescent reference point.MethodsA ...
Fengzhi Li, Yijin Zan, Kun Zhang, Fan Liu, Bingxin Si, Lela Lin, Jing Guo, Qingling Zhang, Dong Wang, Xianrong Xu   +9 more
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Prevention of respiratory infections at day care centers: recommendations and systematic review of the evidence

Archivos Argentinos de Pediatria, 2014
Attending a day care center is a risk factor for respiratory infections. The objective of this study is to review which nonspecific prevention measures are recommended for day care centers and the evidence of their usefulness in this setting.Recommendations regarding nonspecific prevention at national level were searched using Google and the web sites ...
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Acupuncture for ventilator-dependent patients at a hospital-based respiratory care center: A randomized controlled trial. [PDF]

Integr Med Res, 2023
Chen JM, Chiang WL, Ji BC, Jhang RJ, Chen PH, Li YL, Chang CJ, Huang SY, Lee TC, Chen CY, Lin CH, Lin SH.   +11 more
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Predictive biomarkers for immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy in lung cancer

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have changed the treatment mode of lung cancer, extending the survival time of patients unprecedentedly. Once patients respond to ICIs, the median duration of response is usually longer than that achieved with ...
Jie Yao, Xuwen Lin, Xin Zhang, Mei Xie, Xidong Ma, Xinyu Bao, Jialin Song, Yiran Liang, Qiqi Wang, Xinying Xue   +9 more
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Childhood respiratory viruses in public health care centers [PDF]

The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2012
Bonati, Poliana Castro de Resende, Silva, Carlos Henrique Martins da   +1 more
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Diagnostic value of Serum Amyloid A (SAA) in HIV-associated pulmonary infections and its correlation with inflammatory markers

BMC Infectious Diseases
Objective To evaluate the impact of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection on serum amyloid A (SAA) levels in acute pulmonary infections and assess correlations between SAA and other inflammatory markers in HIV-associated pneumonia. Methods In this
Ruifang Chen, Shuai Ren, Haicheng Tang, Qingguo Wu   +3 more
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Roles of gender and smoking in the associations between urinary phytoestrogens and asthma/wheeze and lung function: evidence from a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open Respiratory Research
Background The role of phytoestrogens in asthma/wheeze and lung function remains controversial. Thus, we aimed to examine whether phytoestrogens have beneficial effects on asthma/wheeze, lung function for subgroups and mortality.Methods Participants in ...
Yin Zhang, Gang Wang, Ji Wang, Tingxuan Huang, Fengming Luo   +4 more
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Scenario of acute respiratory distress syndrome in a tertiary care center.

JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association, 2011
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is an acute hypoxic respiratory failure due to non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema with diverse etiologies and high mortality. This study has been conducted to assess etiologies, physiological variables, mortality and its predictors in the ICU.A prospective cross-sectional study was carried out with all the ...
S, Lakhey, R, Shrestha, S, Thapa, S, Tuladhar   +3 more
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The Crucial Role of the PPAR Signaling Pathway in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Analysis of Gene Expression and Macrophage Polarization

International Journal of COPD
Ling Zhang,* Rong Guo,* Haixia Wu, Abula Abudusalamu, Wei Ding, Dewei Li, Xuemei Wei, Lin Niu Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, 830001, People’s Republic ...
Zhang L, Guo R, Wu H, Abudusalamu A, Ding W, Li D, Wei X, Niu L   +7 more
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