The aim was to evaluate the associations of long-term exposure to main constituents of PM2.5 with lung function in China. This is a nationwide, cross-sectional analysis among 50,991 study participants from the China Pulmonary Health study. Multivariable linear regression models were used to obtain...
BACKGROUND: Although exposure to cigarette smoking and air pollution is common, the current prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unknown in the Chinese adult population. We conducted the China Pulmonary Health (CPH) study to assess the prevalence and risk factors of COPD in...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China: a nationwide prevalence study Prevalence and risk factors of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China (the China Pulmonary Health [CPH] study): a national cross-sectional study
近日,北大医院全科团队的研究成果被GOLD 2023慢阻肺筛查相关章节引用,该研究成果于2021年发表于BMJ Open(Zihan Pan,Andrew P Dickens,Chunhua Chi,et al.BMJ Open 2021;11:e051811.)。 GOLD(Global Strategy for the Diagnosis,Management,and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease,GOLD)指南为全球慢...
BMC Infectious Diseases (2016) 16:758 DOI 10.1186/s12879-016-2077-y RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access The experiences of high school students with pulmonary tuberculosis in China: a qualitative study Shaoru Zhang1*, Xiaohong Li2, Tianhua Zhang3, Yahui Fan1 and Yuelu Li1 Abstract Background: ...
Sickle cell anemia is characterized by severe vascular abnormalities and leads to chronic cardiovascular diseases, including pulmonary hypertension, heart failure, and stroke57. In addition, individuals with the sickle cell trait are also at increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease58. Our find...
Li, X., Lu, J. & Hu, S. The primary health-care system in China.Lancet390, 2584–2594 (2017). ArticleGoogle Scholar Wang, C. et al. Prevalence and risk factors of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China (the China Pulmonary Health [CPH] study): a national cross-sectional study...
Most patients with prostate cancer inevitably progress to castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), at which stage chemotherapeutics like docetaxel become the first-line treatment. However, chemotherapy resistance typically develops after an initial p
PULMONARY MEDICINE JANUARY 6, 2025 Role of Social Determinants of Health in COVID-19 RecoveryA Qualitative Study Neelima Navuluri, MD, MPH; Nrupen A. Bhavsar, PhD, MPH; Vivian Chen, BS; et al. This qualitative study explores how patients with COVID-19 and their caregivers perceive t...
When respiratory symptoms were taken into account, pulmonary function was associated only with perceived fair/poor health. Respiratory symptoms, however, were strongly associated with all HRQOL measures. Most of this association appears to be attributable to frequent phlegm and past year wheeze. More ...