Association of Sinusitis and Upper Respiratory Tract Diseases With Incident Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Case-control Study. [PDF]
J Rheumatol, 2022 Objective We aimed to determine whether specific respiratory tract diseases are associated with increased rheumatoid arthritis (RA) risk. Methods This case-control study within the Mass General Brigham Biobank matched newly diagnosed RA cases to 3 ...
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The Relationship Between Lower Respiratory Tract Microbiome and Allergic Respiratory Tract Diseases in Children [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2021 Similar to those in the upper respiratory tract, there are microbes present in the healthy human lower respiratory tract (LRT), including the lungs and bronchus.
Jinghua Cui +12 more
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Upper Respiratory Tract Diseases in Athletes in Different Sports Disciplines. [PDF]
J Hum Kinet, 2016 Upper respiratory tract diseases in athletes are a very common medical problem. Training conditions in different sports disciplines increase the risk of upper respiratory disease.
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Effect of exposure to ambient PM2.5 pollution on the risk of respiratory tract diseases: a meta-analysis of cohort studies. [PDF]
J Biomed Res, 2017 The International Agency for Research on Cancer and the World Health Organization have designated airborne particulates, including particulates of median aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2.5 μm (PM2.5), as Group 1 carcinogens.
Liu Q +7 more
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Integrative Approach to Identifying System-Level Mechanisms of Chung-Sang-Bo-Ha-Hwan’s Influence on Respiratory Tract Diseases: A Network Pharmacological Analysis with Experimental Validation [PDF]
Plants, 2023 Chung-Sang-Bo-Ha-Hwan (CSBHH) is an herbal prescription widely used to treat various chronic respiratory diseases. To investigate the system-level treatment mechanisms of CSBHH in respiratory tract diseases, we identified 56 active ingredients of CSBHH ...
Sa-Yoon Park +4 more
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The Beneficial Role of Probiotic Lactobacillus in Respiratory Diseases
Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Respiratory diseases cause a high incidence and mortality worldwide. As a natural immunobiotic, Lactobacillus has excellent immunomodulatory ability. Administration of some Lactobacillus species can alleviate the symptoms of respiratory diseases such as ...
Tingfeng Du +3 more
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Essential oils in the treatment of respiratory tract diseases highlighting their role in bacterial infections and their anti-inflammatory action: a review. [PDF]
Flavour Fragr J, 2015 The appearance of multidrug resistant bacteria and growing antibiotic resistance is leading to a continuous need for discovering new drugs and alternative treatments against infections. The investigation of the antibacterial effect of essential oils (EOs)
Horváth G, Ács K.
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Hospitalization of aboriginal and non-aboriginal patients for respiratory tract diseases in Western Australia, 1988-1993 [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 1997 BACKGROUND Aboriginal people have lower health standards than other Australians. Respiratory tract diseases are prominent causes of high morbidity and mortality rates in the Aboriginal population.
Peta Williams, M.P. Gracey, Peter Smith
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Nasal Nitric Oxide in the Upper Airway Inflammatory Diseases [PDF]
Journal of Rhinology, 2021 Exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) from the lower respiratory tract is used commonly in diagnosis and treatment monitoring of asthma patients. However, nasal nitric oxide (nNO) has not been widely used in patients with upper airway inflammatory diseases due to ...
Jin Hyeok Jeong
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Increasing trends in mortality and costs of infectious diseases in Korea: trends in mortality and costs of infectious diseases [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2022 OBJECTIVES In an era when the average life expectancy and overall mortality rate have improved, Korea remains at risk for infectious disease outbreaks that place substantial burdens on the healthcare system.
Dahye Baik, Byung-Woo Kim, Moran Ki
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