I find that my patients are particularly concerned with how their results compare to normal. To help them understand this, I like to explain that their forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) refers to how much they are able to blow out during the first second of the test. I then ...
Military airborne hazards and exposures-related lung diseases such as constrictive bronchiolitis are challenging pulmonary conditions to diagnose, often presenting with nonspecific respiratory symptoms that can elude detection through conventional imaging and pulmonary function tests [18].The introduction of fun...
A study in the July 2006American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicineshowed that smokers with asthma who give up smoking can improve their lung function in as little as 1 week. The small study involved 21 smokers with asthma. Ten of them quit smoking for 10 weeks, while the ot...
Abnormal heart muscle function (including congestive heart failure) The disease of the mitral valve between the left and right ventricle An overactive thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism) or overdose of thyroid medication Low amounts of oxygen in the blood, for example, as occur with lung diseases such...
1. Stage 0: This is used to describe cancer in situ, which literally means “in place.” Cancers at this stage are identified according to the location where they initially emerged and multiplied. However, the resulting tumor has not yet spread to nearby tissue. The good news is prognosis ...
Already there are many candidates for investigation that could help prevent disease progression or recurrence, including cancer-associated fibroblasts4 and conserved myeloid populations in lung cancer5, osteoclasts and osteoblasts in prostate-cancer bone metastasis6, and pancreatic stellate cells in ...
Lung Cervix Stomach I point this out because you’ll note that several of the most common (and aggressive) cancers have to do with your gastrointestinal system. The function of your body that processes the food you eat, distributes it around your body as needed, and does its best to dump...
Aerobic exercise primarily targets the cardiovascular system, improving heart and lung function, and increasing endurance over time. Aerobic exercise has numerous health benefits, including improved cardiovascular health, reduced risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes, weight management,...
and continuous activation of this pathway results in the formation of BCC. The mutations that lead to abnormal hedgehog pathway activation and tumor formation are inactivating mutations of PTCH1 or activating mutations of SMOm. In a tiny subset of BCCs, a loss-of-function mutation in SUFU, an...
Measurements of the forced expiratory volume in 1 second are collected as a measure of lung function and plotted against the corresponding dosage of drug that each patient received. 16. Which one of the following is an appropriate statistical approach to assess any correlation between drug dose ...