Sentences with phrase «lung function from»

These masks — which essentially function like a scarf, only more so — have been shown to keep lung function from declining during exercise.

The Division of Pulmonary Medicine deals with the breath of life in all its aspects: control of breathing; sleep disorders; obstruction to airflow in the common diseases of upper and lower airways such as croup, bronchiolitis, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and bronchopulmonary dysplasia; restriction to lung function from disorders affecting the chest wall, the musculature, the nervous system, or lung tissue itself; congenital anomalies; accidents such as inhalation of foreign bodies, hydrocarbons, or toxic gases; secondary effects of non-pulmonary system disorders such as gastrointestinal reflux, myopathy, or cardiac dysfunction; disease of the upper respiratory tract including rhinitis and sinusitis; and so on.

For decades, the development of COPD has been ascribed to accelerated decline of lung function from a normal level achieved in young adulthood.

Not exact matches

The proper functioning of influenza - specific T cells is critical for efficient clearance of the virus from the lungs.

Flavonoids in apples improve lung function, protecting you from lung cancer and from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

One cup of chopped kale contains as much as 9 % of an adult's daily calcium requirement (protecting you from bone loss and osteoporosis) and helping your metabolism); 206 % of your vitamin A requirement (good for vision and skin as well as helping to prevent lung and mouth cancers); 134 % of your vitamin C requirement (supporting the immune system) and a whopping 684 % of cancer fighting vitamin K. Vitamin K is also necessary for a wide variety of other bodily functions, including normal blood clotting, antioxidant activity, and bone health.

Burns and her colleagues surveyed 2,115 U.S. and Canadian high school students from 16 to 19 years of age over the course of a school year about their eating habits — and, also, tested their lung function.

Former studies have already proven that smoking during pregnancy can harm the unborn child: Newborns from smoking mothers have shown low birth weights and impaired lung functions; later on in life respiratory diseases, diabetes type II, asthma or cardiovascular diseases were also more common.

Using data from the INfancia y Medio Ambiente (INMA) Project — a population - based mother - child cohort study set up in several geographic areas in Spain — the researchers assessed lung function with spirometry (measuring of breath).

From the 1,295 women enrolled in the study at the beginning of pregnancy, the researchers obtained data on exposure to both air pollution and lung function assessment at 4.5 years old for 620 (48 %) of their children.

This completely blew my mind, because from all the papers I read, CF patients were slim, malnourished, and had lung function half of normal people.

Short - term exposure studies of e-cigarette use show a negative impact on lung function and bystanders absorb nicotine from passive exposure to e-cigarette aerosol, the authors report.

Over time, the lung is changed by secretions from the M2 cells, which cause the lung tissue to remodel itself, contributing to irreversible obstruction and poor lung function.

The research team, Heller says, has already begun experiments to further explore the implications of these results, which include looking at differences in this pathway between cells taken from allergic and healthy individuals, and testing the efficacy of an inhalable drug that mimics the function of GRB1 and p70S6K to shut off the development of M2 macrophages in the lungs of mice.

Importantly, maternal smoking and childhood asthma not only adversely affected early lung function, but predisposed children to more rapid lung function decline if they still suffered from asthma or actively smoked as adults.»

The multisite team, led by researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, suggests that ECAC, as measured by computed tomography scanning, is associated with poor lung function and respiratory symptoms.

Using information from the resting lung function tests, they calculated an estimate of airway size for both premature and full term groups.

The findings from the University of Bristol study, published in the Journal of Medical Genetics, may have important implications for physical fitness training, and for the treatment of lung function disorders and short stature.

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

Findings from the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, have revealed that adding the medication known as spironolactone (Aldactone) to existing therapy did not significantly reduce the composite time to either death from cardiovascular causes, surviving a cardiac arrest, or hospitalization to manage heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.

They are used when a patient is having surgery with general anesthesia or for those who suffer from impaired lung function.

They looked to the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, an effort to examine the behavior and health — including lung function — of 1,037 individuals who have been tracked since their birth in Dunedin, New Zealand during a 12 - month period from 1972 - 1973.

Cook - Mills examined the CARDIA results for individuals» lung function tests at four intervals from baseline to 20 years and the type of tocopherol levels in their blood plasma at three intervals from baseline to 15 years.

In this new study, researchers included data from 968 people who were undergoing complete lung function testing for the first time.

The study comprised data from three large cohorts, where individuals were subjected to repeated lung function measurements over the course of many years.

For the first time, the scientists could quantitate two major trajectories of lung function leading to COPD: the fast decline trajectory, where lung function declines very rapidly from a normal level, and the alternative trajectory where suboptimal development of lung function during childhood and adolescence is the major determinant of COPD in older age.

The current clinical trial uses information of air movement from existing 4D CT data and «some equations,» says Vinogradskiy (diplomatically) to calculate lung function in tissue surrounding tumors.

Now an international team of researchers led by the lung researcher Marianne Geiser from the Institute of Anatomy at the University of Bern and the aerosol researcher Josef Dommen from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI has shown that secondary particles from gasoline combustion in Euro 5 engines directly damage lung tissue as well as weaken its defense functions.

To test VX - 770, the doorman drug, researchers used lung cells from a CF patient with the G551D mutation — the same one sickening the Cheevers girls, who required only a doorman drug to function in healthy mode.

At one end of the spectrum, thick mucus derailed the function of the body: It blocked the pancreas from delivering enzymes needed for food digestion and absorption, resulting in malnutrition, and also caused severe lung infections, often killing children by age 5.

New research comparing cystic fibrosis patients in the United States and Canada showed that, although the patients» nutritional status and lung function improved in both countries over the period from 1990 to 2013, the rate of improvement was faster in the United States.

Senescence impairs lung function in two ways: It prevents lung cells from dividing when they need to be replaced.

Further studies that measure lung function and wheezing from birth onwards are needed to explore whether the infections cause asthma and lower lung function, or whether wheezing and lower lung function may be predisposing these children to develop the infections.

Children who had suffered from lower respiratory tract infections, such as bronchitis, bronchiolitis, pneumonia and general chest infections, had a two - to four-fold increased risk of developing asthma in later life and were also more likely to have worse lung function.

Birds require 20 times more oxygen than reptiles and boast fixed thigh bones to enable the proper lung function (that fixed positioning can help to stop birds» lungs from collapsing).

Resident macrophages from the same lineage, such as liver Kupffer cells, brain microglia, epidermal Langerhans cells, lung alveolar macrophages..., display tissue - specific phenotypes, perform tissue - specific functions and have distinct gene expression profiles.

Recent work from Fousteri Lab revealed a novel metabolic function of active transcription that is rapidly switched on globally in human cells to promote genetic accuracy, and reduce the mutation burden in genotoxins - exposed tissues, such as skin and lung, thus actively participating in lowering oncogenesis.

The liver is a large organ that lies beneath the right lung that performs many important physiological functions, including breaking down nutrients absorbed from the intestine; filtering the blood of toxins; and producing blood clotting factors.

It involved a range of university departments and hospitals across Australia and pinpointed six lung function pathways from childhood to middle age.

According to a new study from Johns Hopkins University, doing so could help slow the decline of your lung function, by reversing some of the damage caused by smoking.

Certain particle compounds may directly generate ROS in vivo because of their surface chemistry (eg, metals, organic compounds, and semiquinones) or after bioactivation by cytochrome P450 systems (eg, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon conversion to quinones).6, 290 a, 290 b A particle surface or anions present on otherwise more inert particles may disrupt iron homeostasis in the lung and thereby also generate ROS via Fenton reactions.291 Other PM constituents may do so indirectly by the upregulation of endogenous cellular sources (eg, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate [NADPH]-RRB- oxidase) 292,293 or by perturbing organelle function (eg, mitochondria) by taken - up PM components.261 Particle stimulation of irritant and afferent ANS fibers may also play a role in local and systemic oxidative stress formation.294 Given the rich antioxidant defenses in the lung fluid, secondarily generated oxidization products of endogenous molecules (eg, oxidized phospholipids, proteins) or a reduction in endogenous antioxidants per se may be responsible at least in part for the state of oxidative stress in the lungs (along with instigating the subsequent cellular responses) rather than ROS derived directly from PM and its constituents.

Featuring lectures by speakers from the University of Minnesota, UNC, Duke, NCSU and Wake Forest University, the symposium is open to the entire scientific community and a broad spectrum of topics will be covered including the Brain Connectome project, the effect of music on brain function, novel MR and OCT imaging techniques for the lungs, and advanced ultrasound methodologies for tissue characterization.

It will change your body, increase your lung function, and give your mind a much needed distraction from the onslaught of day - to - day life.

EFAs or essential fatty acids play a very important role in different body functions like cell maintenance, brain development, transportation of oxygen from the lungs to the bloodstream, regulation of metabolism and mood, regulation of insulin sensitivity, as well as hormone production.

Your body needs the right fats (coconut or olive oil, omega - 3s, and fats from healthy grass - fed animals) to produce new cells, manufacture hormones, coat the lungs, for optimal brain function, and many other reactions.

From a health perspective, I would only be scratching the surface by mentioning benefits that include improvement in blood pressure, increases in HDL (good) cholesterol and decreases in LDL (bad) cholesterol, reduced body fat, a decreased glucose - stimulated insulin response, improvement in heart and lung function and efficiency, and decreases in anxiety, tension, and depression.

Pycnogenol is a standardized extract from French maritime pine bark that is a powerful antioxidant, and has been shown to improve lung function and decrease the need for asthma medications.

(Source)(Source) It has also been found to possibly protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease and reduce the risk of preeclampsia in pregnant women when taken with vitamin C, and to support lung function.

Detoxification is a normal body process of eliminating or neutralising toxins resulting from biochemical functions through the colon, liver, kidneys, lungs, lymph nodes, and skin.

(4) It has been demonstrated to be an effective expectorant (making it good for removing phlegm and toxins from the lungs), and it is used in traditional Chinese medicine to boost liver function to cleanse the blood.