New COPD Risk Tool ACCEPT 3.0 Cuts Overprediction Across 18 Countries
Recalibrating the ACCEPT COPD exacerbation prediction tool with country-specific background risk substantially improved its calibration across 18 countries in the ...
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Characterization of airway mucus using quantitative MRI: an in vitro proof-of-concept study
An in vitro study found that T2 relaxation times measured with an ultrashort echo time MRI sequence fell steadily as ...
Procalcitonin predicts death risk in COPD flare-ups without pneumonia
A prospective multicenter study of 6,791 hospitalized COPD patients in China found that procalcitonin levels above 0.11 ng/mL independently predicted ...
Planned wildfire-prevention power shutoffs linked to higher acute respiratory illness risk
A seven-year California study found planned power shutoffs were associated with increased emergency department visits and hospitalizations for respiratory conditions, ...
Planned Power Outages Linked to More Respiratory ER Visits During Wildfire Smoke
A California case-crossover study finds severe planned power shutoffs raise same-day respiratory emergency care odds, especially when wildfire PM2.5 co-occurs.
Most COPD hospital records lack captured pulmonary function reports, audit finds
A retrospective audit of an inpatient EHR export found pulmonary function report rows captured for only 10.8% of patients with ...
Single-cell atlas reveals inflammatory monocyte state tied to WTAP in healthy lungs and COPD
A single-cell atlas of healthy and COPD lung tissue identifies an HSPA1B-positive inflammatory monocyte state whose transcriptional program is associated ...
What Blocks Digital Lung Care? A Review of Reviews Maps the Barriers and Boosters
A systematic review of reviews finds that evidence on barriers and facilitators to digital medicine in chronic respiratory disease is ...
Pneumonia Strikes Roughly One in Eleven Older Adults After Hip Fracture Surgery
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 23 cohorts finds that about 8.7 percent of older adults develop pneumonia after hip ...
Taiwanese LDCT cohort identifies lung malignancy risks beyond smoking history
A retrospective Taiwanese LDCT cohort of 7,319 adults linked lung malignancy detection with female sex, older age, smoking history and ...
Single-Inhaler Triple Therapy and Biologics Reshape COPD Treatment, Review Finds
A narrative review synthesizes real-world evidence supporting single-inhaler triple therapy and the emergence of dupilumab, mepolizumab and the investigational anti-IL-33 ...
Retrospective Spanish study links COPD triple therapy to lower costs and emissions
A retrospective analysis of 718 Spanish adults with COPD found that triple-therapy initiation was followed by lower healthcare use, €200.11 ...
Post-treatment serum IL-6 independently associated with progression in observational cohort of advanced NSCLC with COPD
In a two-center observational cohort of 120 patients with advanced NSCLC and COPD, higher serum IL-6 measured after six treatment ...
CFT-Triplet improves AI detection of thin pulmonary fissures
A hybrid AI framework combining Mamba2 context modeling, frequency-domain refinement and local texture analysis outperformed leading baselines for detecting pulmonary ...
Letter Cautions Survey Links Between Cannabis, Asthma and COPD
A methodological letter says symptom-based classifications and missing spirometry limit survey associations between inhaled cannabis, asthma and COPD.
CHEST 2026 Meeting Unveils New Research in Asthma, COPD, Fibrosis and Critical Care
New abstracts from the CHEST 2026 Annual Meeting in Phoenix span asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, fibrotic lung disease, lung cancer screening, ...
Chest wall restriction device for modeling respiratory challenges and dysfunction
A new chest wall restriction device from University of Florida engineers applies precise static and dynamic loads to the chest ...
Rapid PCR Testing Guided by Pharmacists Cuts Antibiotic Overuse in COPD Flare-Ups
A prospective study in North Macedonia found that pharmacist-interpreted multiplex PCR testing enabled antibiotic discontinuation in nearly two-thirds of hospitalized ...
Airway Microbes and Immune Networks Reshape Inflammation in HIV-Linked COPD
A two-year multi-omics study in Uganda finds that temporal ecological turnover, disease-specific microbial signatures and non-linear host-microbe interaction networks shape ...
Income Shapes Who Survives Disease in Sweden, Landmark Study of 100 Conditions Finds
A study of nearly 6.85 million Swedes found that people in the lowest income quartile had worse ten-year survival than ...
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