Health

Questionnaire-based approach valid for identifying frailty

(HealthDay)—A questionnaire-based approach seems to be valid for identifying adults in the intensive care unit with a frailty phenotype, according to a study published online March 30 in the Annals of the American Thoracic ...

Cardiology

Exercise capacity prognostically beneficial for patients

(HealthDay)—Cardiopulmonary exercise testing, unless contraindicated, should be performed to obtain an overall view of cardiac and pulmonary patients' clinical status, according to a review published online March 31 in ...

Immunology

Serum periostin IDs comorbid chronic rhinosinusitis in asthma

(HealthDay)—For patients with asthma, serum periostin is useful for detecting chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, according to a study published online March 1 in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Cardiology

ACE inhibitors, ARBs may slow percent emphysema progression

(HealthDay)—Use of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) is associated with slowed progression of percent emphysema on chest computed tomography (CT), according to a study ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Thiamine may reduce progression to renal replacement therapy

(HealthDay)—For patients in septic shock, thiamine is associated with a lower rate of progression to renal replacement therapy (RRT), according to research published online Feb. 16 in the Annals of the American Thoracic ...

Health

Health effects of air pollution go beyond lung disease

Since 2000, the last year the American Thoracic Society issued a statement on the effect of air pollution on lung diseases, a growing body of research reveals links between air pollutants and other illnesses, including heart ...

Oncology & Cancer

Increasing severity of airflow limitation linked to lung CA risk

(HealthDay)—For older heavy cigarette smokers, the severity of airflow limitation is associated with increasing lung cancer risk, according to a study published online Jan. 11 in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Cardiology

Nigeria: Clean-burning stoves improve health for new mothers

In a small clinical trial that replaced widely used biomass and kerosene cookstoves with clean-burning ethanol stoves, a team of researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) was able to ...

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