Sentences with phrase «in lung function»

By early adulthood, 75 percent of the children with persistent asthma displayed an early decline in lung function and / or reduced lung growth.

Also, excessive consumption of salt can strip off the potassium, a vital mineral that is associated with an improvement in the lung functioning.

The study compared changes in the two counties in lung function and body mass index among CF patients.

Compared to the women who didn't clean house, the regular home cleaners and occupational cleaners who used cleaning sprays and other products showed an accelerated decline in lung function.

Women with regular exposure to cleaning products may face a steeper decline in lung function over time, according to an international study.

«Screening with an electronic stethoscope may be able to detect early changes in lung function in individuals without symptoms of lung disease.»

Secondary outcome measures included time to first exacerbation, severity of exacerbations, quality of life and changes in lung function as measured by spirometry.

She found that a high level of gamma - tocoperol, 10 micromolar in the blood plasma, was associated with a 10 to 17 percent reduction in lung function.

The increase in lung function at low levels was very small, said study researcher Stefan Kertesz, a professor of preventive medicine at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

The findings revealed that there were no significant differences in the types of ammunition used, but all groups experienced a decline in lung function shortly after shooting and at 24 hours after exposure, compared with the pre-test levels.

Breathing ozone results in short - term decreases in lung function and damages the cells lining the lungs.

An analysis published last year of data on more than 5,000 Americans did not find a decline in lung function among individuals who smoked joints two or three times a month over two decades.

«Our study is the first to connect voice fatigue problems with gender - based physiological differences in lung functions, pointing to respiratory function as a source of the gender inequality in voice problems.»

«Although allergic sensitization and allergen exposure are known to be associated with impairments in lung function, the effects of allergic disease on respiratory symptoms in COPD patients has only recently been studied,» said researcher Nadia N. Hansel, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins Asthma & Allergy Center.

For the first time gene therapy for cystic fibrosis has shown a significant benefit in lung function compared with placebo, in a phase 2 randomised trial published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal.

«This long - term chronic disease can be developed in different ways, so achieving normal growth in lung function in early adulthood is an important factor in terms of future risk,» says Peter Lange, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine at Hvidovre Hospital and professor at the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen.

Boosting the incomes of poor, elderly residents in developing countries can significantly improve their health and well - being, particularly in lung function and memory, a new study shows.

The high - fat diet patients also showed less improvement in their lung function in response to the asthma medication Ventolin (generically known as albuterol) three to four hours after the meal.

When the volume of air they could inhale was measured, former smokers who consumed a tomato - and fruit - rich diet had around 80 milliliter slower decline in lung function over 10 years.

«A 10 percent reduction in lung function is like an asthmatic condition,» Cook - Mills said.

However, Esther and the UNC coauthors, who were not involved in the clinical trial, said that a statistically significant increase in lung function is thought to lead to fewer CF - related flare - ups over the course of a year.

Three of these pathways were associated with COPD — the group with below average lung function in early life and a quick decline in lung function in later life, those with persistently low lung function, and those with below average lung function.

Also, we would like to study what percentage of the association between respiratory tract infections and asthma can be explained by changes in lung function, and whether the associations change when we take early - life wheezing into account,» she will conclude.

Anne - Katrine Borander, lead author of the study from the Oslo University Hospital, said: «The findings from our small sample show that fumes from military arms are causing a decline in lung function shortly after firing practice.»

Breathing ozone results in short - term decreases in lung function and damages the cells lining the lungs.

Women who work as cleaners or regularly use cleaning sprays or other cleaning products at home appear to experience a greater decline in lung function over time than women who do not clean, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

This amplifies the damage already caused by childhood risk factors, and may result in a more rapid decline in lung function.

The authors speculate that the decline in lung function is attributable to the irritation that most cleaning chemicals cause on the mucous membranes lining the airways, which over time results in persistent changes in the airways and airway remodeling.

The study also looked at smokers without airway obstruction to determine whether acute respiratory events were associated with a decline in lung function.

Exposure to fumes released during the firing of military small arms can lead to a decline in lung function, according to a new study.

«Fumes from military small arms lead to decline in lung function.»

They also investigated the clinical features of these subtypes and whether there is any association with changes in genes and decline in lung function.

Greater involvement on imaging scans was related to greater average reductions in lung function (forced vital capacity): up to 18 percent for those with extensive pleural and / or parenchymal changes.

The researchers found that the addition of vitamin D3 to ciclesonide did not significantly reduce the rate of first treatment failure (a composite outcome of decline in lung function and increases in use of beta - agonists, systemic steroids, and health care utilization) compared with placebo; 28 percent and 29 percent of participants in each group, respectively, experienced at least 1 treatment failure during 28 weeks.

«We've shown that even in younger patients who have relatively mild disease, Orkambi led to improvements in lung function,» says Felix Ratjen of the Hospital for Sick Children at the University of Toronto, Canada.

After six months, participants in Valladolid showed significant improvements in lung function and memory.

The faster rate of improvement in lung function and nutrition in the United States, the researchers suggested, may be due to earlier implementation of newborn screening or quality improvement initiatives for the disease and improved access to medical care under the Medicaid Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in the United States.

Lung function, another key measure of health in cystic fibrosis, improved in both the United States and Canada; however, the rate of improvement in lung function was greater in all age groups in the United States compared to Canada.

According to the university, it was found that ex-smokers who on average ate more than two tomatoes or more than three portions of fresh fruit per day experienced a slower decline in lung function than those who ate less than one tomato or less than one portion of fruit per day.

In a second study, published in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine, the team showed that in rodents they could use the same type of lung cell to successfully treat a model of IPF — a chronic, irreversible, and ultimately fatal disease characterized by a progressive decline in lung function.

While a 2006 French study found that people with diets high in beta - carotene had a slower decline in lung function over an eight - year period, heavy smokers and drinkers may not benefit.

2 grams of L - carnitine taken twice per day for two to four weeks led to positive changes in lung function and metabolism during exercise.

«Having a non-invasive means of diagnosing asthma early in the course of disease will allow proper targeted therapy that can prevent declines in lung function over time,» said Dr. Reinero.