Sentences with phrase «of airflow obstruction»

We used logistic regression to assess our outcome (resumption of firefighting duties) after adjustment for age, smoking status, and the presence or absence of airflow obstruction; results are expressed as odds ratios and 95 percent confidence intervals.

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Bhatt also said the research team found that ECAC was associated with increased incidence of acute respiratory events on follow - up in those without COPD, and with increased incidence of severe exacerbations in those with airflow obstruction.

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.

The inhalation of BP is known to be an effective treatment for patients with non-asthmatic chronic airflow obstruction.

This leads to obstruction of airflow in the small airways and overwhelming inflammation.»

While the small conducting airways less than 2 mm in diameter are the major site of resistance to airflow in COPD, collapse greater than 50 percent of the larger central airway during exhalation has been hypothesized to cause additional airflow obstruction and respiratory morbidity.

Data from a study of more than 2,300 spirometry tests showed asthma was detected much earlier by the analyzing airflow obstruction in the small airway, yet, doctors typically have used only the airflow obstruction results in the large airway.

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.

The index is based on an assessment of body - mass index, airflow obstruction, dyspnea and exercise capacity.

Patients with COPD have airflow obstruction that is caused either by destruction of the air sacs that exchange gas in the lungs (emphysema) and / or inflammation of the airways (chronic bronchitis).

It should be noted that a significant proportion of former smokers in our sample set exhibited low FEV1 levels, raising the possibility that airflow obstruction may be a confounding issue in this analysis.

Dr. Burschtin said my sleep apnea was mild, according to my respiratory disturbance index, which was based on the frequency of my airway obstructions, airflow reductions, and breathing increases.