Epidemiology of asthma in children and adults

SC Dharmage, JL Perret, A Custovic - Frontiers in pediatrics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Asthma is a globally significant non-communicable disease with major public health
consequences for both children and adults, including high morbidity, and mortality in severe …

Early-life origins of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

FD Martinez - New England Journal of Medicine, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Early-Life Origins of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | New England Journal of Medicine
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Lung-function trajectories leading to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

P Lange, B Celli, A Agustí, G Boje Jensen… - … England Journal of …, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is thought to result from an
accelerated decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) over time. Yet it is …

Childhood predictors of lung function trajectories and future COPD risk: a prospective cohort study from the first to the sixth decade of life

DS Bui, CJ Lodge, JA Burgess, AJ Lowe… - The lancet Respiratory …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Lifetime lung function is related to quality of life and longevity. Over the lifespan,
individuals follow different lung function trajectories. Identification of these trajectories, their …

Patterns of growth and decline in lung function in persistent childhood asthma

MJ McGeachie, KP Yates, X Zhou, F Guo… - … England Journal of …, 2016 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Tracking longitudinal measurements of growth and decline in lung function in
patients with persistent childhood asthma may reveal links between asthma and subsequent …

Risk factors and early origins of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

DS Postma, A Bush, M van den Berge - The Lancet, 2015 - thelancet.com
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is mainly a smoking-related disorder and affects
millions of people worldwide, with a large effect on individual patients and society as a …

[BOOK][B] Lung function: physiology, measurement and application in medicine

JE Cotes, DJ Chinn, MR Miller - 2009 - books.google.com
The only text to cover lung function assessment from first principles including methodology,
reference values and interpretation New for this edition:-More illustrations to convey …

[HTML][HTML] Air pollutants and early origins of respiratory diseases

D Kim, Z Chen, LF Zhou, SX Huang - Chronic diseases and translational …, 2018 - Elsevier
Air pollution is a global health threat and causes millions of human deaths annually. The late
onset of respiratory diseases in children and adults due to prenatal or perinatal exposure to …

Epidemiology of COPD

C Raherison, PO Girodet - European respiratory review, 2009 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is responsible for early mortality, high death
rates and significant cost to health systems. The projection for 2020 indicates that COPD will …

The contribution of small airway obstruction to the pathogenesis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

JC Hogg, PD Paré, TL Hackett - Physiological reviews, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
The hypothesis that the small conducting airways were the major site of obstruction to airflow
in normal lungs was introduced by Rohrer in 1915 and prevailed until Weibel introduced a …