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Is chronic hypoxemia in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease associated with more marked nutritional deficiency?: A study of the fat-free mass evaluated by anthropometry and bioelectrical impedance methods
(2000-07-26)
In order to determine wheter blood gases abnormalities, specially hypoxemia, are associated with more marked changes in fat-free mass in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (CPOD), nutritional assessment ...
Autologous Infusion of Bone Marrow and Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Phase I Randomized Clinical Trial
(2021-01-01)
Background and Objectives: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by the destruction of alveolar walls, chronic inflammation and persistent respiratory symptoms. There is no curative clinical treatment ...
Daily activities are sufficient to induce dynamic pulmonary hyperinflation and dyspnea in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients
(Faculdade de Medicina / USP, 2012-01-01)
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to measure dynamic lung hyperinflation and its influence on dyspnea perception in moderate and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients after performing activities of daily ...
Acute bronchodilator responsiveness in subjects with and without airflow obstruction in five Latin American cities: The PLATINO study
(ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2010)
Background: Acute bronchodilator responsiveness is an area of discussion in COPD. No information exists regarding this aspect of the disease from an unselected COPD population. We assessed acute bronchodilator responsiveness ...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is underdiagnosed and undertreated in São Paulo (Brazil). Results of the PLATINO Study
(2007)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common disease in adults over 40 years of age and has a great social and economic impact. It remains little recognized and undertreated even in developed countries. However, ...
Previous tuberculosis disease as a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cross-sectional analysis of multicountry, population-based studies.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)
BACKGROUND: Risk factors for COPD in high-income settings are well understood; however, less attention has been paid to contributors of COPD in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) such as pulmonary tuberculosis. ...
Sex differences in mortality in patients with COPD
(EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD, 2009)
Little is known about survival and clinical prognostic factors in females with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The aim of the present study was to determine the survival difference between males and females ...
C-Reactive protein levels in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2012)
Background: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have elevated serum levels of ultrasensitive C reactive protein (CRPus). This raise may be related directly to COPD and its associated systemic ...
Mesenchymal stromal cells-based therapy in a murine model of elastase-induced emphysema: Simvastatin as a potential adjuvant in cellular homing
(2021-10-01)
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - COPD is characterized by the destruction of alveolar walls associated to a chronic inflammatory response of the airways. There is no clinical therapy for COPD. In this context, ...