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...