For each year of increase in menopausal age, COPD risk was reduced by 1.2%, and current smokers reached menopause 1.402 years earlier than never smokers. Menopausal age has a strong association with ...

The acquisition allows Sword to scale its presence in the U.S. and bring its physical therapy platform to the German market.

Population aging is reshaping the landscape of respiratory disease, with COPD, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, bronchiectasis, ...

COPD and gastrointestinal diseases have a significant bidirectional association, with depressive symptoms serving as a key mediator.

Recent developments of interest in cardiovascular medicine ...

Background Quadriceps maximal voluntary contraction (QMVC) reliably measures quadriceps muscle force and predicts mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the minimal ...

Updated initial conversion table based on clinical trials in adults showing significantly improved mealtime glycemic ...

When COVID hit, health care systems around the world were turned upside down. Hospitals cleared beds, routine appointments ...

Pulmonary function tests are a group of noninvasive breathing tests that measure how much air your lungs can hold, how quickly you can move air in and out and how efficiently your lungs transfer ...

In The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, Christine R Jenkins and colleagues present the results of the Bisoprolol to Prevent Adverse Cardiac Events (PACE) study in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Asia contains more than half the world's population and almost half of all people living with chronic respiratory disease,1–3 yet until now there has been no coherent, country-level assessment of how ...