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Filter by:Since the spread of the COVID-19 disease, several studies have reported the presence of neurological symptoms in patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 such as dysgeusia, hypo or anosmia, hypopsia, the presence of headaches or neuralgia. It has also been described an inconsistent association, in the most severe patients, neurological disorders such as labile arterial hypertension, persistent central fever, vigilance disorders as well as a poor adaptation of the cardio vascular and respiratory systems characterized by paradoxical bradycardia and the frequent absence of polypnea in response to profound hypoxemia. These different functional signs are usually described in particular in patients with impairment of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in connection with other neuropathological processes.
This human application test was designed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the losing suction tendon, compared to the control food when the GCWB1001 was consistent with the symptoms of the respiratory symptoms of mildness.
The proposed research study will be a prospective observational study designed to validate the Canadian Triage Assessment Scale (CTAS) in regard to work of breathing in patients in the emergency department. The investigators will assess inter-rater agreement between nurses & emergency physicians for assessment of work of breathing.
This cross-sectional survey study is intended to describe the characteristics of adults in 4 US states with regards to respiratory symptoms and tobacco exposure, utilizing an existing state-administered, CDC overseen Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System telephone health survey. The primary goal of study is to describe the sociodemographics, health behaviors, and presence of chronic diseases in persons with or at risk of having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Work related asthma and rhinitis are frequent diseases with a significant morbidity and a social and economic impact. Farmers are highly exposed to various inhaled agents such as organic or inorganic dust, endotoxin, micro-organisms, pollen, mites, moulds, animal danders and pesticides, inducing rhinitis, asthma, chronic bronchitis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis and organic dust toxic syndrome. Work related respiratory symptoms are frequent in crop farmers. Allergic rhinitis and respiratory symptoms in fruit farmers are mainly related to pollen allergy, especially gramineae pollen. They can also be related to the use of pesticides or exposure to mites .
Respiratory conditions impose an enormous burden on the individual and the society. According to the WHO World Health Report 2000, the top five respiratory diseases - including asthma and COPD - account for 17% of all deaths and 13% of all Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). Obstructive lung diseases are among the most common chronic diseases in working-aged populations affecting ~40 million individuals in Europe. The greatest economic burden of respiratory diseases on health services and lost production in the EU is due to COPD and asthma, at about €20 billion each for healthcare and €25 billion and €15 billion, respectively, for lost production. For Norway, there are no estimates of asthma prevalence for the country as a whole, but 80/1000 women and 55/1000 men used asthma medication in 2013 according to the national prescription register. Estimated annual deaths in Norway due to COPD were 4070 in 2015, which is 30% higher than for lung cancer. Unfortunately, a substantial proportion of patients are still difficult to treat. This underlines the need for better primary prevention and more knowledge regarding causes and exacerbating factors. Several risk factors for chronic respiratory diseases are identified, most important tobacco smoke, closely followed by air pollution and occupational exposure. However, according to recent reviews there is a lack of understanding regarding environmental risk factors and mechanisms of how these affect respiratory health, the importance of biological markers and comorbidity, and of socioeconomic risk factors. Moreover, there is a need for assessment of interactions between risk factors and between the individual and the environment. Telemark has a high proportion of craft- and industrial workers providing exposure contrasts. Furthermore, the use of medication against respiratory diseases and the rate of sick leave are higher in Telemark than elsewhere in Norway. Moreover, the county has a high rate of disability. There are previous studies from other parts of Norway, which have estimated the occurrence of respiratory diseases and provided valuable knowledge regarding some risk factors. However, these studies use crude measures of self-reported exposure and do not provide sufficient information on how to target intervention and implement effective prevention. In contrast to the Telemark study, these studies have not included register data or advanced modelling of environmental exposure.
THE AIM OF THIS STUDY IS TO TEST IF THE STRETCHING OF THE RESPIRATORY ACCESSORY MUSCLE PROVIDE SOME BENEFIT ON THORACOABDOMINAL MECHANICS, FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
This study is an evaluation of the composition of human milk and health outcomes in children.
Recently integrated in clinical practice, the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) classification states that a mild (stage I) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is present, in a smoker, when the postbronchodilator forced expired volume in 1 second (FEV1) to forced vital capacity (FVC) ratio is < 0.7. A major change that was introduced by the GOLD classification system was that COPD could be diagnosed despite an FEV1 that is within normal predicted values (above 80% predicted). Because it suggests diagnosing and detecting COPD earlier than done until very recently in medical practice, the GOLD standards bring in a new reality to clinicians. In fact, this novel COPD classification comes with new research challenges because the functional impacts and systemic consequences related to COPD are mostly documented in patients with moderate to severe stages with little information specifically in GOLD stage I COPD. This information is important if the investigators are to convince physicians that GOLD stage I COPD needs to be diagnosed and eventually treated. The investigators aimed to characterize GOLD stage I COPD patients according to activity-related dyspnea. More specifically, our objectives were to compare: i) baseline pulmonary function ii) exercise capacity iii) quadriceps muscle function iv) levels of physical activity in daily life between symptomatic (Sx) GOLD stage I COPD patients, asymptomatic (ASx) GOLD stage I COPD patients and healthy control subjects (CTRL). The investigators reasoned that exercise tolerance and physical activity levels would be decreased in Sx GOLD stage I COPD patients as it would be similar between ASx GOLD stage I COPD patients and CTRL.
Pulmonary function tests including spirometry, lung volumes, measurements of resistance and diffusing capacity are essential in the diagnosis of several pulmonary diseases. These tests are an integral part of the diagnosis and treatment of lung diseases, but until now there is no clear evidence for the use of many of the pulmonary function tests because of a lack of adequate studies. The obscurity largely pertains to the conditions under which combinations of the various tests are indicated. Therefore the Belgian Thoracic Society, assembling all pulmonologists and the pneumology LOK/GLEM‟s, will investigate this matter.