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Dystrophin isoform deficiency and upper‐limb and respiratory function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Mary Chesshyre, Deborah Ridout, Georgia Stimpson, Valeria Ricotti, Silvana De Lucia, Erik H Niks, Volker Straub, Laurent Servais, Jean‐Yves Hogrel, Giovanni Baranello, Adnan Manzur, UK NorthStar Clinical Network and Francesco Muntoni* on behalf of the iMDEX network.
Mary Chesshyre   +176 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the extremely elderly at a pulmonary function clinic for the diagnosis of respiratory disease: frequency and technical quality of spirometry

open access: yesJornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
Objective: To determine the frequency of spirometry in elderly people, by age group, at a pulmonary function clinic, to assess the quality of spirometry in the extremely elderly, and to determine whether chronological age influences the quality of ...
Saulo Maia d’Avila Melo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design and Development of Paper-based Spirometry Device and its Smart-phone based Lung Condition Monitoring and Analysis Software [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv
We describe the design, construction and characterisation of paper based devices to perform spirometry, a standard test for lung function assessment. In this device the instantaneous flowrate of the incoming breath from a person gets transformed to a specific acoustic frequency. In this manner, the time course of the persons breath profile is mapped to
arxiv  

Effect of inspiratory pressure support on exercise performance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Title: Effect of inspiratory pressure support on exercise performance in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Purpose: This study examined the effects of a non-invasive ventilator on submaximal and maximal exercise performance in ...
Doggett, Anita
core  

Sputum microbiology data and related clinical outcomes among adult Aboriginal Australians with bronchiectasis

open access: yesInternal Medicine Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sputum microbiology is an integral aspect of managing patients with bronchiectasis. Adult Aboriginal Australians have a high bronchiectasis disease burden; however, as yet there is sparce literature detailing the sputum microbiology profile in this population.
Claire Gibbs   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clustering Longitudinal Data: A Review of Methods and Software Packages

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary Clustering of longitudinal data is becoming increasingly popular in many fields such as social sciences, business, environmental science, medicine and healthcare. However, it is often challenging due to the complex nature of the data, such as dependencies between observations collected over time, missingness, sparsity and non‐linearity, making ...
Zihang Lu
wiley   +1 more source

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