Sentences with phrase «lung growth»

By early adulthood, 75 percent of the children with persistent asthma displayed an early decline in lung function and / or reduced lung growth.
Scientists have linked air pollution to respiratory problems and the stunted lung growth of children in London.
They suggest that interventions to maximise lung growth in early childhood might modify the risk of COPD in older age.
«Persistent childhood asthma linked to COPD: Study finds that early lung function predicts lung growth later in life.»
The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 12, found that early lung function predicts lung growth later in life, regardless of asthma treatment and smoking exposure.
Nutritional deficiencies impair lung growth, favour infections and decrease the ability of cells to control inflammatory processes, for example through a lack of anti-oxidative factors.
The AAP Committee on Environmental Health has identified these problems with secondhand smoke exposure: decreased lung growth, decreased lung function, and increased frequency of lower respiratory tract infections and respiratory symptoms.
«These findings highlight the importance of preventing both early life adverse exposures that could lead to poorer lung growth, and adult risk factors contributing to accelerated lung decline.
«Children who had low lung function at the start of the trial followed a series of predicted growth patterns: most had reduced lung growth with time and a significant number would go on to meet the criteria for COPD.»
«If it were possible to repeat lung function at one time only, the best time would be around age 25, when lung growth peaks.»
Exposure to ozone during childhood can also impair normal lung growth and development and may contribute to new asthma, which can start at any age.
The authors developed a model of human lung culture and validated these results in the context of human lung growth.
Infant lung disorders related to lung development, such as alveolar capillary dysplasia, or abnormal lung growth (pulmonary hypoplasia, bronchopulmonary dysplasia),
The device helps the spine grow straighter and supports lung growth and natural breathing.
Bioengineers are using part of a $ 3.4 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a nanoparticle drug - delivery system to stimulate lung growth and function.
It can lead to pulmonary hypoplasia (stunted lung growth, umbilical cord constriction at delivery, and issues with the first bowel movement) or negatively affect fetal growth.
In Southern California communities, exposure to air pollution and traffic emissions stunts children's lung growth, according to USC research.
Children with thoracic insufficiency syndrome often experience impaired breathing or lung growth.
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