Preschool children (ie, those aged 5 years or younger) with wheeze consume a disproportionately
high amount of health-care resources compared with older children and adults with …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is currently the third leading cause of death
in the world. Although smoking is the main risk factor for this disease, only a minority of …

The extent to which a community outbreak of infection like COVID-19 stresses other parts of
healthcare system like STEMI care is largely unknown. Contemporary COVID-19 infection …

… Also, unequal and inadequate sample size may be an issue. In the former, samples from
five moderate patients with COPD were compared with eight control samples. In the latter, BAL …

… results across studies to increase the effective sample size. It is possible that there were small
… We also calculated the actual sample size needed on the basis of the effect size of each …

… size tube set to 70 kV and 145 μA and the magnification at 1.3 (field of view = 91.08 mm).
A general purpose reconstruction mode was used in a 512 × 512 matrix of 150-μm pixel size. …

… Sample size estimation was done by using G power statistics. There was no randomization
but stratification was used to achieve a similar sex ratio among experimental groups. No …

A20 is a nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) target gene that encodes a ubiquitin-editing enzyme that
is essential for the termination of NF-κB activation after tumor necrosis factor (TNF) or …

COPD, asthma, and cystic fibrosis (CF) are obstructive lung diseases with distinct
pathophysiologies and clinical phenotypes. In this paper, we highlight recent advances in our …

Rationale: The relatively sparse but diverse microbiome in human lungs may become less
diverse in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This article examines the …