rehabilitation of skeletal muscles in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

... ApEn is defined as: ApEn(m, r, N ) = m (r) − m+1 (r) For analysis, 25 groups of values were required with r ranging initially from 0.1→0.5 in intervals of 0.1 and, M as 1→5 in intervals of Effect ... enforced different combinations for r and M in subjects exhibiting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [17–19] symptoms and those without with the objective of locating the most statistically ... evaluate these responses in subjects exhibiting symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and we strived to overcome this disadvantage by applying different groupings to detect the optimal

Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2022, 19:09

... heart diseases, interstitial lung diseases, bronchiectasis as the main cause of obstructive disease, lung carcinoma, severe obesity (body mass index ≥ 40 kg/m2), or any other disease that could influence ... surveillance (monitoring) of arterial blood gases in those in the control group, leading to an increased likelihood of prescription of LTOT in this group In this regard, INOX could not be conducted ... place in the early stages of the study regarding important aspects of the trial including (1) the need for blinding, (2) its composite outcome, and (3) the exclusion of sleep apnea Page of 10

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 15:45

... six stages of thematic analysis [42] which involves identifying excerpts of data, dividing data into units of code, using and continually adapting the coding frame, building codes into categories ... pertaining to the implementation of PR in people with COPD living in Perth, WA In addition to clinical influence, the financial influence of strategies which seek to optimise the implementation of ... possible their nominated primary support person Informed consent During the process of obtaining informed consent for Phase 1, participant’s interest in engaging in Phase and/or Phase of the project

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2021, 15:32

... men The increasing incidence of COPD is reflected in increasing health care costs to treat and care for patients The total cost of COPD in the U.S was approximately $32 billion dollars in 2002 ... properties of statistical inference and underpins the basis of probability theory [18, 19] Gotway and Young [17] outline a combination of spatial smoothing and geostatistical upscaling or aggregation of ... as specific to smoking as are other diseases typically included in the spectrum of illnesses falling under the rubric of COPD We should also mention that our information regarding COPD charges

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

... 2007:CD003794 Nannini LJ, Cates CJ, Lasserson TJ, Poole P: Combined corticosteroid and long-acting beta-agonist in one inhaler versus inhaled steroids for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ... to drug interactions [12]. The collective results of inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting beta-2 ago- nist combination are summarized in figure 2. In total, there were 269 deaths in the inhaled ... reference group of the trial in order to pre- serve the integrity of the original trial design and avoid Figure 3 The Effects of Inhaled Corticosteroid/Long-Acting Beta-2 Agonist Combination on Total

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:21

... 1) Epidemiological characteristics? ?of? ?Chronic? ?obstructive? ?pulmonary? ? disease? ?in? ?Que Vo and Thuan Thanh districts? ?of? ?Bac Ninh province? ?in? ?2015:  The overall prevalence? ?of? ?Chronic? ?obstructive? ?pulmonary? ?disease? ?in? ?Que  Vo and Thuan Thanh districts was 3.6%, specifically? ?in? ?the district. Que Vo  ... characteristics   of   Chronic? ? obstructive? ?pulmonary? ?disease? ?in? ?Que Vo and Thuan Thanh districts, Bac  Ninh province? ?in? ?2015 2). Analyzing some factors related to? ?Chronic? ?obstructive? ?pulmonary? ? disease? ?in? ?the studied area ... 3. New contributions? ?of? ?the thesis: 1) Epidemiological characteristics? ?of? ?Chronic? ?obstructive? ?pulmonary? ? disease? ?in? ?Que Vo and Thuan Thanh districts? ?of? ?Bac Ninh province? ?in? ?2015:  The overall prevalence? ?of? ?Chronic? ?obstructive? ?pulmonary? ?disease? ?in? ?Que 

Ngày tải lên: 17/07/2020, 23:29

... MeSH terms referring to inhaled corticosteroid and the risk of URTI were used as search terms, including ? ?Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive? ?? OR ? ?chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? ?? OR “COPD” ... risk of blinding of participants and personnel bias, study had high risk of blinding of outcome assessment bias, and study had high risk of incomplete outcome data One study had unclear risk of ... use of inhaled corticosteroids and the risk of pneumonia in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a metaanalysis Arch Intern Med 2009;169(3):219–29 Cherry DK, Hing E, Woodwell DA, Rechtsteiner

Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2021, 03:28

... patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease EurRespirJ 1998;12:380–6 27 Keatings VM, Collins PD, Scott DM, Barnes PJ Differences in interleukin-8 and tumor necrosis factor-alpha in induced ... expression of activation markers in sub-populations of monocytes in severe COPD We evaluated the level of expression of the activation and homing proinflammatory chemokine receptors CCR2 and CCR5 in ... Overexpression of CD163, CD204 and CD206 on alveolar macrophages in the lungs of patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease PLoS One 2014;9:e87400 25 Shapiro SD The macrophage in chronic obstructive

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2022, 16:41

... 1% of bacteria can be cultured using traditional methods [14], there has been increasing interest in the use of culture-independent diagnostic techniques Many of these rely on the analysis of ... Barnes1, Gavin C Donaldson1 and Jadwiga A Wedzicha1 Abstract Background: There has been increasing interest in the use of newer, culture-independent techniques to study the airway microbiome of COPD ... definition of infection The importance of using a bacterial load threshold which is associated with a greater inflammatory response is that this avoids using purely the detection of a PPM to define

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 11:37

... symptom in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [21,22] There is evidence that a reduction in air pollutants attenuates the decline in respiratory health in children The delay in ... part in the baseline investigation Of these, 2116 participated in a questionnaire follow-up in 2006 and in a subgroup of 402 women lung function was tested in 2008-2009 Generalized estimating ... the effect of a reduction in air pollutants on chronic respiratory symptoms and diseases, including chronic cough Chronic cough is common in people aged 70 and over and the prevalence increases

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... Effect of pharmacotherapy on rate of decline of lung function in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: results from the TORCH study Am J Respir Crit Care Med Inspiratory muscle training in pulmonary ... RodriguezRoisin R Ventilationperfusion mismatching in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease during ventilator weaning Am Rev Respir Dis M Randomised controlled trial of home based care of patients with chronic ... chronic obstructive pulmonary disease BMJ obstructive pulmonary disease Respir Care Clin N Am MANAGEMENT OF COPD 85 RO DU CE Cost effectiveness of an outpatient multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... markers of airway inflammation in patients with stable chronic bronchitis Am J Med 2000, 109:288-295 Sethi S, Murphy TF: Infection in the pathogenesis and course of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ... Y, Jenkins C, Rodriguez-Roisin R, van Weel C, Zielinski J, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: Global strategy for the diagnosis, management, and prevention of chronic obstructive ... 55:114-120 Sethi S, Wrona C, Eschberger K, Lobbins P, Cai X, Murphy TF: Inflammatory profile of new bacterial strain exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2008,

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:20

... Keywords: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease IL-17, Tc17 cells Introduction Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a pro- gressive and irreversible chronic inflammatory disease of the ... active. These findings contribute to the growing body of information that supports the importance of investigating t he role of IL-17 and related cytokines in COPD, potentially providing novel therapeutic ... 7 of 10 Figure 4 Double immunofluorescence staining for detection of IL-17A and IL-17F expression in CD4 + and CD8 + T cells in airways of COPD patients. (A) Double immunofluorescence staining

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... molecular fingerprint image analysis and recognition, such areas could well offer rich sources of analytical protocols Defining, revising and analysing a molecular fingerprint In addition to developing ... Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Curr Opin Pulm Med 2002, 8(2):81-86 Mahler DA, Weinberg DH, Wells CK, Feinstein AR: The measurement of dyspnea Contents, interobserver ... K: Evaluation of interferon-gamma, interferon-gamma-inducing cytokines, and interferongamma-inducible chemokines in tuberculous pleural effusions J Lab Clin Med 2005, 145(2):88-93 Iniesta P, Moran

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... involve- ment in exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Clin Infect Dis 2004, 39(7):980-986. 11. Saint S, Bent S, Vittinghoff E, Grady D: Antibiotics in chronic obstructive pulmonary ... Description of loss to follow-up Blinding of patients Blinding of treatment providers Description of co- interventions Blinding of outcome assessors Intention-to- treat-analysis Adjustment ... Antibiotics in exacerbations of COPD: lessons from the past. Eur Respir J 2004, 24(6):896-897. 3. NICE: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: national clini- cal guideline for management of chronic obstructive

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... that investiga- tors face in studying naturally occurring exacerbations including under-reporting of exacerbations[5], delay in presentation[30], varying aetiology, difficulties in sam- pling ... Excellence (NICE).: Chronic obstrac- tive pulmonary disease: national clinical guideline for man- agement of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults in primary and secondary care. Thorax ... feasibility of developing an experimental model of rhinovirus induced COPD exacerbations and to assess safety of rhinovirus infection in COPD patients. We carried out a pilot virus dose escalating study

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... the possibility of inducing exacerbations. Introduction The global burden of disease studies point to an alarming increase in the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmo- nary disease (COPD) [1] ... Airway inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease* 1: Comparisons with asthma J Allergy Clin Immunol 2003, 112:819-827 Chung KF: Cytokines in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ... protocol with a single intratra- cheal administration leading to significant and rapid changes. However, extrapolating these findings to slowly developing features of smoking induced human COPD

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... nitrate in a proportion of 1:2 to obtain the final working solution for staining of AgNORs The silver reaction carried out for 22–24 in the dark The sections were mounted in DPX without conterstain ... previously [52] One hour prior to termination of exposure, a single injection of 325 μl of 0.17 mM PBS-buffered BrdU (Boehringer, Mannheim, Germany) was administered intraperitoneally Sections were ... of allergic obstructive airway diseases such as allergic bronchial asthma [20], not exist In this respect, in striking contrast to numerous existing experimental approaches to determine the inflammation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... worsening of one unit of the BODE index has a 50% increased risk of worsening in the SGRQ total score and activity domain Our findings are in accord with Lin et al [11], who found by multiple linear ... baseline (Baseline Dyspnea Index) in order to answer questions regarding the TDI [28] Therefore, we used the MMRC scale which is a traditional instrument included in the BODE index [20] In multiple ... exacerbation in the changes of health status Our results showed that exacerbation rate was associated with impairment of HS during follow-up This finding reinforces the impact of exacerbation in clinical...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... albumin Human serum albumin (HSA) is a single nonglycosylated polypeptide containing 35 cysteine residues all involved in the formation of stabilising disulphide bonds except 34cysteine In plasma, ... as a marker of protein degradation and turnover (8, 9) In fact the oxidative modification of proteins and lipids has been implicated in the etiology of a number of diseases including atherogenesis ... significant interaction of COPD with smoking (P < 0.001) Relationship between smoking status and levels of carbonylated HSA Since smoking status influenced baseline levels of HSA we next investigated...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22