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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"American Thoracic Society"”.
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The Association Between Childhood Traffic Exhaust Exposure and Asthma Differs Between Normal and Overweight Children
… to determine the presence of asthma based on the American Thoracic Society diagnostic criteria. Weight assessments were performed at age seven and children were categorized as either normal or overweight based on their body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference.Results: There was a significant …
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Identificazione e caratterizzazione di un gene associato all'asma ad insorgenza precoce persistente
… by a pulmonary physician, in accordante with American Thoracic Society criteria. We performed linkage and association analyses by transmission/disequilibrium test and case-control analysis in the candidate region 12q13-24 already implicated in asthma etiology in multiple populations We …
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La espirometría en atención primaria de Tenerife : utilización y calidad
… aceptabilidad y reproducibilidad de la ATS (American Thoracic Society En resumen nuestros resultados indican que se dispone de espirómetros en la mayoría de los centros, que su utilización es muy baja, sobretodo en la zona Sur, donde se realiza esta prueba funcional en menos de la mitad de …
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Liver Injury in HIV-positive Patients on Antituberculosis and/or Antiretroviral Therapy – Assessing Causality
… Town, South Africa. Participants had to fulfil American Thoracic Society criteria for ATT interruption (alanine transaminase [ALT]≥5 times upper limit of normal [ULN]/ALT≥3 times [ULN] and symptomatic). Causality assessment by expert panel review served as reference standard. The panel ranked …
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Assessment of an ex vivo porcine lung model to investigate host-microbe interactions in cases of ventilator associated pneumonia
… the identification and diagnosis of the disease (American Thoracic Society; Infectious diseases Society of America, 2005). Since working with patients within hospitals is unpractical for research for several reasons, a developmental ex vivo porcine lung model has been theorised. The benefits of …
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Neumonías bacterianas graves de adquisición comunitaria en pacientes con infección por el virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana. Factores asociados a la mortalidad y desarrollo de un sistema pronóstico
… “ A pesar de que los criterios de gravedad de la American Thoracic Society han sido definidos para pacientes inmunocompetentes, éstos pueden predecir la mortalidad en pacientes con infección por el VIH con neumonía bacteriana de adquisición comunitaria”. El espectro etiológico de las neumonías …
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The quality and variation of spirometry reads for testing lung function in children in sub Saharan Africa
… and spirometry was performed according to the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society (ATS/ERS) guidelines using an Easy on-PC spirometer in the participant‘s home. The ATS/ERS standards for adults and the modified recommendations for children were applied to evaluate …
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Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria in The Gambia: Prevalent Species, Carriage and Disease
… published from Jan 1,1940 to Oct 1, 2016. The American Thoracic Society and Infectious Disease Society of America (ATS/IDSA) diagnostic criteria was applied to differentiate between colonisation of NTM and clinically relevant pulmonary NTM disease. Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) species were …
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Phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitors for the treatment of inflammation associated with respiratory disease
… articles, a poster presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) conference in 1999 and a review article published in Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (publication 1) in 1997 are also included. In the initial work (publication 2) to investigate if it was possible to correlate in …