Sentences with phrase «airway disease associated»

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This decline in PAL was significantly associated with an increase in airflow obstruction (shown by a decline in FEV1) and an increase in total score on the St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire, which measures the impact of obstructive airway disease on overall health, daily life, and perceived well - being.

It could be a critical target with significant therapeutic potential for suppressing inflammation associated with chronic airway disease.

While the mechanism by which a significant weight loss can reduce asthma - associated risks is unknown, studies have linked obesity to increased inflammation, higher prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease, and physical changes in the airway — all of which could contribute to asthma severity.

Lead researchers Associate Professor Chrishan Samuel and Dr Simon Royce tested the efficacy of the MSCs on three key components of asthma in a preclinical model of chronic allergic airways disease: inflammation; airway remodeling (structural changes that occur in lungs as a result of prolonged inflammation); and airway hyperresponsiveness (the clinical symptom of asthma).

Read the full paper titled Intranasal administration of mesenchymoangioblast - derived mesenchymal stem cells abrogates airway fibrosis and airway hyperresponsiveness associated with chronic allergic airways disease published in the FASEB Journal.

Conclusion: Inflammatory airway diseases and symptoms are associated with CI and BRI, which encourages further research regarding underlying mechanisms and treatments.

Parent - reported physician - diagnosed asthma is associated with more objective outcomes (eg, airway hyperresponsiveness) and more severe disease.33 Moreover, this definition is used by the National Center for Health Statistics in surveys of the US population to facilitate generalizability.34