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Following recommendations, quantitative serum AAT measurement in stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients is used as an initial screening test (Casas et al., 2015), where 1.04 g/L is a borderline value for detecting AATD individuals with a negative predictive value of 99.8% (...
BMC Infectious Diseases (2024) 24:239 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-09112-7 BMC Infectious Diseases RESEARCH Open Access Mortality and associated factors among people living with HIV admitted at a tertiary- care hospital in Uganda: a cross-sectional study Darius Owachi1*, Praise A...
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is at a crossroad. Over the last decade, successes in the scale up of HIV care and treatment programs has led to a burgeoning number of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in care. At the same time, an epidemiologic shift has been witnessed with a concomitant rise ...
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BMC Public Health (2021) 21:680 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10714-y RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access The opioid crisis is driving mortality among under-served people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada Kate A. Salters1,2, Stephanie Parent1, Valerie Nicholson1, Lu Wang1, Paul ...
Theophylline was prescribed as monotherapy in a high proportion of patients with COPD, most of whom were in Timis (6.62% versus 3.62%). Cyclooxygenase (COX)-2-selective NSAIDs were also prescribed in patients with cardiovascular problems (Table 4). Altogether, 30 EPCCs had no valid drug indi...
I have been saying for a long time that real estate will sink 70% with maybe a 90% drop in second homes. Everything has come back from the last time, but I think we are going to do the whole 70% drop in value this next time.” Ackerman also thinks cash will be valuable in the...
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the Best Care COPD care providers and leadership, who were generous with their time and insight throughout their participation in this study. They would also like to acknowledge Benson Law's contribution to copy-editing this manuscript.References...
Smoking rates are disproportionately high among people living with HIV. Smokers living with HIV (SLWH) are also largely unaware of the HIV-specific deleterious effects of smoking and often lack motivation and confidence in their ability to quit tobacco. To address these issues, we developed the ...