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Mashup Score: 0Impacts of Chronic Stress on Cardiovascular Disease Risk to be Focus of American Heart Association (AHA) $15 Million Research Project - 11 month(s) ago
May 31, 2023 — The American Heart Association (AHA) has announced that teams of research scientists from three universities will lead an innovative $15 million project to study the biological mechanisms of chronic stress that can increase cardiovascular disease risk. The AHA’s Strategically Focused Research Network (SFRN) on Biologic Pathways of Chronic Psychosocial Stressors on Cardiovascular…
Source: DAICCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Airway-Occluding Mucus Plugs and Mortality in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - 12 month(s) ago
This observational retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data examines whether airway mucus plugs identified on chest computed tomography were associated with increased all-cause mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Source: jamanetwork.comCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Burden of disease, mild or mild-to-moderate COPD | COPD - 1 year(s) ago
Clear evidence of heavier burden of disease for patients in GOLD B, compared with GOLD A, & highlights factors assoc. with worse outcomes in GOLD A/B.
Source: www.dovepress.comCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Umeclidinium/vilanterol versus inhaled corticosteroid | COPD - 1 year(s) ago
Comparing adherence to once-daily UMEC/VI, a long-acting muscarinic antagonist/long-acting β2-agonist and twice-daily inhaled corticosteroids in COPD
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Mashup Score: 0Assessing Quality of Life in Patients With Chronic Urticaria Through Comparisons With Patients Having Other Common Chronic Diseases - 1 year(s) ago
Chronic urticaria (CU) is a common chronic inflammatory disease, but the burden on quality of life (QOL) has been underestimated.
Categories: Allergy-Immunology, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Chronic Airways Assessment Test: psychometric properties in patients with asthma and/or COPD - Respiratory Research - 1 year(s) ago
Background No short patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments assess overall health status across different obstructive lung diseases. Thus, the wording of the introduction to the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Assessment Test (CAT) was modified to permit use in asthma and/or COPD. This tool is called the Chronic Airways Assessment Test (CAAT). Methods The psychometric properties…
Source: BioMed CentralCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Small lung syndrome: the need to reclassify chronic lung disease - 1 year(s) ago
In 1958, an international symposium defined a category of “non-specific lung disease”, which excluded all neoplasms, infections, and diseases caused by other known (mostly occupational) exposures.1 This grouping included bronchitis (defined by symptoms), emphysema (defined by histology), and airflow obstruction, both reversible (asthma) and irreversible (later called chronic obstructive pulmonary…
Source: The Lancet Respiratory MedicineCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Navafenterol for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease therapy - 1 year(s) ago
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a prevalent disease of the airways in which inhaled bronchodilators can be given as monotherapy or fixed dose combination, in order to better control…
Source: Taylor & FrancisCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Establishing a balloon pulmonary angioplasty program for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: A United States single-center experience - 1 year(s) ago
Balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA) is a less invasive treatment alternative for patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) who are unable to move forward with pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. This report describes a single-center experience with a nascent BPA program in the United States (US).
Source: Respiratory MedicineCategories: Latest Headlines, PulmonologyTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Overcoming IT Pain Points to Advance the Clinical Experience - 1 year(s) ago
What are the chronic IT ‘pain points’ in the digitally demanding healthcare industry, and how are technology leaders overcoming them? Join our next thought-leadership tech talk to learn more, where we’ll share: Research Findings from a recent HIMSS-led market intelligence report Pain Points experienced across global IT healthcare teams HIMSS ’23 Preview of what to expect from Extreme Networks …
Source: learn.extremenetworks.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
@DAICeditor @AHANewYorkCity @OSUWexMed @ucdavis @VCU AHA has named The Ohio State University, UC Davis and Virginia Commonwealth University as awardees of $15 million #scientific #research grants to teams to study the mechanisms of #chronic #stress: https://t.co/OV7rhwDPwO