by Karolinska Institutet Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An abnormal BMI in children—be it high or low—can now be associated with impaired lung function, but if their BMI is normalized before they reach adulthood, the impairment can be offset, researchers from Karolinska Institutet report. Their results, which are based on data collected under the BAMSE project in...
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Genetics of COPD important for lung function in young people, study finds
August 13, 2024 by Karolinska Institutet Box plot of variance in FEV1/FVC explained by the PRS for airflow limitation across the lifespan. Credit: eClinicalMedicine (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102731Certain genetic variants that have previously been linked to the lung disease COPD can explain reduced lung function already in children and adolescents, according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet....
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A Lot of Hot Air? Debate on Gas Stoves Points to Exacerbation, Not Cause
Medscape Medical News > Conference News > ATS 2024 Neil Osterweil May 22, 2024 SAN DIEGO — Although there is as yet no smoking gun definitively showing that indoor nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations from gas appliances are a cause of pulmonary diseases, the circumstantial evidence of the baleful effects of gas stoves on lung function...
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High-tech vest monitors lung function
by Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Acoustic sensors are integrated into the front and back of the textile vest to listen to the thorax. Credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Patients with severe respiratory or lung diseases require intensive treatment and their lung function needs to be monitored on a continuous basis. As part of the Pneumo.Vest project, Fraunhofer researchers have developed a...
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Many Black men with ‘normal’ lung function may actually have emphysema
by American Thoracic Society Black men with emphysema may be misdiagnosed because of race-specific adjustments to spirometry. Credit: ATS A significant percentage of Black men found to have normal lung function after race-based adjustments to spirometry were actually found to have emphysema on their computed tomography (CT) scans, according to research published at the ATS...
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Team tracks integrin’s role in lung function
by Bill Snyder, Vanderbilt University Beta-1 integrin, a critical component of epithelial extracellular matrix receptors, is essential for normal lung function in adulthood, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have discovered. In a mouse model, deleting the gene for beta-1 integrin from the epithelial cells lining the alveoli of the adult lung, where the exchange...