We now know that COPD is not any more common in Aboriginal Australians than in the general population, and we suggest that
smaller lung volumes are probably more related to environmental and socioeconomic factors than to genetics alone,» said Dr. Nathania Cooksley, lead author of the Respirology study.
Not exact matches
Researchers from Columbia Engineering and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have developed a new method that can target delivery of very
small volumes of drugs into the
lung.
However, a patient with a large
volume of disease in the
lung may, in fact, have a worse prognosis than someone with a
small volume of disease in the liver,» Dr. Joseph says.
«The deeper [dolphins] go into the ocean, the
smaller the
volume of gas or air in the
lungs gets,» said study lead author Andreas Fahlman, a professor of biology at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi.