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COPD plus PRISm may promote frailty progression
Frailty progression was significantly accelerated in patients with PRISm and COPD.
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Classification of COPD exacerbation predicts prognosis
Patients hospitalized with severe exacerbations of ECOPD are at increased risk for worse clinical outcomes and death.
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Vasopressin may promote lower mortality in septic shock
Lower doses of initial vasopressin were associated with lower mortality.
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Neutropenia affects clinical presentation of pulmonary mucormycosis
Bronchoalveolar lavage was s stronger contributor to diagnosis in nonneutropenic patients.
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Heat waves plus air pollution tied to doubling of fatal MI
The added value of this study was finding an interaction between extreme hot temperatures and air pollution, “which is worrisome with global...
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Families with pulmonary fibrosis share trends in disease evolution
Age at diagnosis may have potential as a screening tool for unaffected relatives of familial pulmonary fibrosis patients.
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Partial immunization leaves children and communities at risk, study finds
The strongest association with not completing the vaccine series was moving across state lines and not having insurance.
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Asthma severity, exacerbations increase with RV infection
Immunological and quantitative mRNA assays support a pathogenesis role for histamine-releasing factor.
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Phenotypes drive antibiotic response in youth with bronchiectasis
Ethnicity and auscultatory findings were factors predicting response; data may improve antibiotic stewardship.
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COPD: Large-scale study suggests protective role for vitamin D
“Our findings imply that vitamin D might play a role in progression of COPD.”