Sentences with phrase «of obstructive lung disease»

There is also a loss of lung elasticity, which leads to increased collapsibility of airways and the development of obstructive lung disease.

FEV1 / FVC (a measure of obstructive lung disease) was better by a lesser amount but still statistically significant.

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If that risk wasn't enough, long - term use of nicotine leads to Cardiovascular and Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease.

Smoking causes about 9 out of 10 of all lung cancer deaths and 8 out of 10 deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease («COPD») in men and women.

The result is that the small airways collapse during expiration, leading to an obstructive form of lung disease (airflow is impeded and air is generally «trapped» in the lungs in obstructive lung diseases).

A new study has found that stem cell therapy can reduce lung inflammation in an animal model of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis.

Three - quarters of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) cases have their origins in poor lung function pathways beginning in childhood.

Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, are associated with significant long - term lung function loss, according to research published online, ahead of print in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) accelerate the loss of lung function especially among patients with mild disease, according to researchers at National Jewish Health and other institutions.

Common causes of pulmonary hypertension include congestive heart failure, other heart diseases, birth defects of the heart, chronic lung disease, obstructive sleep apnea, and certain autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis.

To make these cracks, the researchers turned to Pseudomonas aeruginosa — a bacterial species that often builds biofilms within the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, which can lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and subsequently death.

None of 22 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a lung disease usually caused by smoking, were able to achieve long - term cessation — although this wasn't a statistically significant predictor.

A number of easily identified disorders can cause such shortness of breath (dyspnea, in technical terms), including asthma, lung infections and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (or COPD, an umbrella term for various conditions that permanently impair airflow through the lungs).

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease which makes it difficult to breathe and is the third commonest cause of death worldwide.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (or COPD, a group of lung diseases that block airflow and make it difficult to breathe)

It's no secret that smoking is harmful, but it's been hard to study its effects on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a disease that leaves sufferers short of breath thanks to inflammation of the small airways in the lung.

«Those pollutants cause people to die early, because of heart attack, stroke, lung cancer, [and] chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,» West said.

The biological mechanisms by which toxins in tobacco smoke cause lung cancer are complex and still not completely understood, but carcinogens in tobacco smoke may not only act as genetic inducers but also act to promote progression of the disease.6 7 As well as potentially reducing the risk of cancer related morbidity and mortality, quitting smoking at diagnosis could reduce overall mortality, as smoking cessation reduces mortality from other diseases such as heart disease, stroke, and chronic obstructive airways disease.8 9

Using translational research methods, the DZL seeks to jointly develop new approaches for the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of serious lung diseases including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD), endstage lung disease, lung cancer, pneumonia and acute lung injury, and pulmonary hypertension.

A team of scientists from the UNC School of Medicine and North Carolina State University (NCSU) has developed promising research towards a possible stem cell treatment for several lung conditions, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cystic fibrosis — often - fatal conditions that affect tens of millions of Americans.

Smoking cessation dramatically reduces the risk of disease, including lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer, as well as early death.

COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is a common preventable and treatable disease of the lungs.

She is also a member of the Global Obstructive Lung Disease scientific committee which is charged with developing internationally an internationally recognized consensus statement on COPD diagnosis and management.

It is the most common type of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a term used to describe progressive lung conditions (another type of COPD is emphysema) that make it hard to breathe.

If you've got chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), it's more important than ever to get some exercise — it can save your lung function and slow down the progression of COPD.

Another more common example is cigarette smoke, which causes chronic inflammation in the lungs, producing oxidation (and free - radicals) and leads to DNA damage and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as well as lung cancer.6 A hallmark of both of these processes in the activation of nuclear factor - Kappa B (NF - KB), which is a protein complex that the body produces in response to inflammation, free radicals, cytokines, all hallmarks of stress.

COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) is one of these lung conditions may be aided by amino acid supplements; in particular, those with even severe COPD.

Studies have shown that consuming more fruits and vegetables may not only halt progression of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis, but appears to improve lung function, and risks of suffering from allergic asthma may be halved by eating two or more servings of vegetables a day.

Coughing can be a symptom of several maladies, including heartworm disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, allergic bronchitis, cardiomyopathy, congestive heart disease, lung cancer, and several other pathologies that can affect the upper and lower airways.

Signs of inflammation can be seen in lung lobes not associated with the embolization, indicating that the disease is not simply an obstructive disease (FIGURE 1).

Obstructive lung disease is most common from 2 to 8 years of age.

Smoke exposure increases respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and medication dispensations for asthma, bronchitis, chest pain, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (commonly known by its acronym, COPD), respiratory infections, and medical visits for lung illnesses.38, 43,160 It has been associated with hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, in an assessment of the global health risks from landscape fire smoke.38, 43,44,141,45 Future climate change is projected to increase wildfire risks and associated emissions, with harmful impacts on health.18, 161,162,10,163,164,36

Human exposure to fine particulate matter increases the risk of acute lower respiratory infection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, stroke and lung cancer, while exposure to carbon dioxide — a colorless, odorless, non-toxic gas — produces none of these effects and is in fact essential for life on earth.

Further highlighting the urgency of the issue in China, new research from Tsinghua University found that an estimated 670,000 premature deaths from four diseases - strokes, lung cancer, coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - were linked to air pollution, especially particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometres or less (a.k.a. PM 2.5).

The «claims» are claims for damages and loss for personal injury (limited to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and / or chronic bronchitis (known together as «non-malignant respiratory disease»), temporary exacerbation of asthma («TEA»), squamous cell skin cancer, lung cancer or bladder cancer) arising out of the employment of the workers named in the group register at various coke ovens owned and operated at various times by British Steel or other companies for whom British Steel have liabilities.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) consists of two main forms, chronic bronchitis, which involves a long - term cough with mucus and Emphysema, which involves destruction of the lungs over time.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a degenerative disorder of the lungs in which there is a reduced ability to expire air.