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... [32], and dental plaque may play an important role in its formation, which may also contribute to PD ...Colonization of dental plaque by respiratory pathogens followed by aspiration has been proposed as a ... See full document

... included studies used different measurement instruments. We used meta-analysis only for ...sizes of included studies was assessed using visual inspection of forest plots ... See full document

... capacity and exacerbations). Future studies should also endeavour to define which ‘‘types’’ of patients are most likely to respond to treatment with ...theophylline. Studies also need to ... See full document

... possible risk factors for the development of ...reviewers and studies were gathered based on pre-defined ...about risk fac- tors for COPD related to the familiar context, ... See full document

... syndrome, and cardiovascular disease (Ferraro et al., 2013). All of the above conditions are known risk factors for chronic kidney disease ...number of epidemiologic ... See full document

... incidence of diastolic heart failure increases with age and is more common in older ...Hypertension and cardiac ischemia are the most common causes of diastolic heart ...Other risk ... See full document

... results of the present study showed that MMRC and BDI scores are responsible for approximately 38% of the AQ20 and 36% of the SGRQ score ...results of studies showing that ... See full document

... with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) can be vulnerable to respiratory incompetence that may lead to swallowing ... See full document

... in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...hypoxemia and, in severe cases, can lead to respiratory ...subjects and can improve sleep in several clinical ...effects of ... See full document

... aim of this study was to give an in-depth consideration of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients’ subjective view of the impact of ... See full document

... degree of dyspnoea of COPD outpatients that could be well-determined by the scales used in our study clearly reflects the impairment of their health-related quality of life as assessed by the ... See full document

... stage of the disease, and pulmonary rehabilitation aims to optimize the patient’s physical and social performance and ...autonomy. Pulmonary rehabilitation care has four ... See full document

... ed. Of t hose, 8 patients were excluded: 3 for presenting obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), 2 for refusing to be submitted to a repeat polysomnography following PR, 1 for developing an orthopedic ... See full document

... 3. Maltais F, Decramer M, Casaburi R, Barreiro E, Burelle Y, Debigaré R, et al. An official American Thoracic Society/ European Respiratory Society statement: update on limb muscle dysfunction in chronic ... See full document

... dyspnea and anorexia for 5 days. A 10-day course of ciprofloxacin was prescribed, a treatment that resulted in no clinical improvement, and the patient was hospitalized for 10 days due to worsening ... See full document

... Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is characterized by progressive and partially reversible airway ...progression of the disease can affect the nutritional state ... See full document

... The analysis of Quadriceps performance was performed by means of a computerized isokinetic ...rate and peripheral oxygen saturation were also ... See full document

... role of cholesterol me- tabolism and cholesterol transport in carcinogenesis: a review of scientific fin- dings, relevant to future cancer ...heart disease, and cancer: the Jichi ... See full document

... cancer, and prostate cancer [14–17].However, similar to the effect of other dietary factors, the association between dietary fat and risk of these cancers remains controversial[18, ... See full document

... A população estudada foi constituída pelas pessoas inscritas nas USF acima referidas, com idade igual ou superior a 40 anos, diagnosticados com DPOC ou bron- quite crónica (que estavam classificados no processo clí- nico ... See full document