Results After adjusting for age, body mass index and pack-years of tobacco smoking, silica exposure was associated with significantly higher levels of alveolar NO (p=0.001), indicating inflammatory ...

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These conditions lead to functional impacts on patients, such as changes in breathing, teeth, speech, chewing, swallowing and sucking. Treatment begins with primary surgeries, including lip and palate ...

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If lung drainage is required then the affected lung should be positioned uppermost; if improved ventilation is required then the effect of PEEP on ventilation distribution is the important factor.

Cheyne-Stokes respirations are an irregular pattern of breathing consisting of a period of long, labored breathing followed by a period of shallow, rapid breathing and moments of no breathing at all ...

PM10 exposure can increase the risk of upper and lower respiratory infections in children of any age. This is evident from ...

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Results from a new animal study found that maternal exposure to e-cigarette residues, with or without nicotine, affected ...

Inspired by a series of reported lung injury cases in teenagers in 2019 ... More information: Amelia Kulle et al, Alveolar macrophage function is impaired following inhalation of berry e-cigarette ...

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