[PDF] Top 20 Relationship between disease severity and quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

... significantly with SGRQ or AQ20 scores. This is in agreement with a study showing no relationship be- tween AQ20 scores and BMI ...correlations between body composition ... See full document

... Processing of the results was performed on a personal computer using statistical analysis package “Statistica ...Wilk and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests were used to test the normality of data ...paired ... See full document

... evaluate quality of life among caregivers of elders with Alzheimer’s disease and to examine the relationship between patients’ quality ... See full document

... conducted with a convenience sample comprising patients attending the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program of the Hospital Universitário de Santa Maria in ...individuals with ... See full document

... digested with 4% sodium hydroxide for 15 min and then inoc- ulated to acid-buffer Lowenstein-Jensen (L-J) ...situation of cultured TB was observed on the third and seventh days, subse- quently ... 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

... The patients performed the CPET on a treadmill (Inbramed, ATL, Brazil) coupled with a metabolic analyzer (MedGraphics VO2000, Medical Graphics, ...USA) in the Laboratório de Movi- mento Humano at the ... See full document

... amount of smoking not correlating with the severity of dyspnea could be attributed to the following possible ...many of our patients are from low socio economic status and ... See full document

... factors and poor posture, which are present, above all in the physical aspect of the work with the patient, added to women’s inherent ...undertaken with women who provide care – health ... See full document

... related quality of life (HRQL) and spiritual well-being (SWB) of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to ... See full document

... study in which they compared a group of COPD patients subject to a rehabilitation program at home carried out by specialized nurses and another group with similar characteristics but ... See full document

... BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major cause of chronic morbidity and mortality throughout the ...world. Pulmonary hypertension is the ... See full document

... that patients with COPD present less ROM in arm elevation than their healthy ...lower and full) in both ...differences in full arm elevation between groups may be related ... See full document

... effects of nocturnal hypoxemia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease without obstructive sleep apnea ...21 patients—10 desaturators ... See full document

... surface of apoptotic cells with integrins expressed on phagocytes ...role in maintaining homeostasis by mediating the removal of apoptotic ...deficient in MFG-E8 develop a severe ... See full document

... effect of three different exercise programs on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease including strength training at 50–80% of one-repetition maximum ... See full document

... associated with cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation and COPD (Chang et ...population in the peripheral blood remarkably increased only in AECOPD patients; our findings indicate ... See full document

... habitual in- and out-of-bed time, during the previous 5 ...also in- structed to keep a diary with records of their in- and out-of- bed times during the ... See full document

... health-related quality of life of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease receiving long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) at home through oxygen ... See full document

... for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Because COPD and OSA are both common chronic conditions, they should be expected to occur together, particularly in middle-aged and older male ... See full document