Browsing Respiratory Tract Diseases by Subject "COPD"

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Antimicrobial Peptides SLPI and Beta Defensin-1 in Sputum are Negatively Correlated with FEV1

External author(s) only (2021-05)

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma have heterogeneous inflammation with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) as a mainstay of treatment. There is increased prevalence of non-typeable Haemophilus ...
Brain activity measured by functional brain imaging predicts breathlessness improvement during pulmonary rehabilitation

Browning, Michael; Harmer, Catherine J; Reinecke, Andrea (2022-12)

Background Chronic breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is effectively treated with pulmonary rehabilitation. However, baseline patient characteristics predicting improvements in breathlessness ...