by University of Southampton Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Southampton clinical researchers, working as part of a UK team, have shed new light on causes of bronchiectasis, a long-term lung condition currently effecting more than 200,000 people in the UK. People who have bronchiectasis experience a persistent cough, shortness of breath and recurring infections because their...
Patients with some of the most common lung diseases are substantially more likely to suffer a heart attack and develop other major heart problems according to new research. The team of heart and lung doctors from the University of Manchester and Aston Medical School found people with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung fibrosis, were more likely to develop, and die from, heart disease and heart failure. The study of nearly 100,000 people with lung disease in...
