Most patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have at least one
additional, clinically relevant chronic disease. Those with the most severe airflow obstruction …

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) was developed and implemented
by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to curb the rate of 30-day hospital …

The intrinsic biophysical states of neutrophils are associated with immune dysfunctions in
diseases. While advanced image‐based biophysical flow cytometers can probe cell …

Background A pandemic outbreak of COVID‐19 has been swee** the world since
December. It begins as a respiratory infection that, mainly in men with diabetes or renal …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) ranks among the leading causes of
morbidity and mortality worldwide. COPD rarely occurs in isolation and is often combined …

Background The association between coffee and caffeine intake and the risk of COPD and
lung function has not been thoroughly discussed in Americans, with subgroup and threshold …

Ozone exposure induces neuroendocrine stress response, which causes lymphopenia. It
was hypothesized that ozone-induced increases in stress hormones will temporally follow …

Clinical studies indicate that patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 develop hyperinflammation,
which correlates with increased mortality. The SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19-dependent …

Various comorbidities and multimorbidity frequently occur in chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD), leading to the overload of health care systems and increased mortality. We …

Inflammation is well understood to be a physiological process of ageing however it also
underlies many chronic diseases, including conditions without an obvious pathogenic …