Patients who frequently need oral prednosolone therapy
Patients who frequently need oral prednosolone therapy might be predisposed for venous thromboembolisme.
Keyword: ERS 2015 Asthma prednisolone venous thromboembolisme
American Thoracic Society 2015 Denver CO, USA
American Thoracic Society Report 2015
Keyword: ATS 2015 airway smooth muscle myofibroblast
Pharmacological inhibition of β-catenin/CBP interaction
Pharmacological inhibition of β-catenin/CBP interaction with the small molecule ICG-001 inhibits proliferation and extracellular matrix production in airway smooth muscle.
Keyword: Asthma β-catenin airway smooth muscle ATS 2015
Health status in patients with COPD & care provided in healthcare settings
An impaired health status is a common feature in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (1, 2). According to the latest Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) document, COPD assessment should among other things aim at determining disease severity, including the impact on patient’s health status, in order to guide treatment (3). Validated and stan...
Keyword: COPD health status
Patients with COPD: Home Sweet Home?
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) suffer from many symptoms, like breathlessness and fatigue.(1, 2) They experience problems with activities of daily life (ADLs), which frequently results in care dependency.(3, 4) This incurs heavy utilization of healthcare resources.(5) Therefore, it could be expected that patients need to rely on informal caregivers at some point in t...
Critical, environmental & genetic predictors of peak expiratory flow
Clinical, environmental and genetic predictors of peak expiratory flow variability in asthma patients.
Keyword: astma piekstroomvariabiliteit
Obstructive sleep apnea in bariatric surgery patients
The International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and metabolic disorders (IFSO) 20th World Congress was held in Vienna, Austria from 26-29 August 2015. This congress provided a scientific program of the highest standard covering global perspectives of this ever evolving discipline that attends to our modern world epidemic that obesity and metabolic disorders have come to represent.
Keyword: Obstructive sleep apnea; Bariatric surgery; Excess Weight Loss; Quality of Life
ATS 2015: Novel therapeutics and targets for pulmonary disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic inflammatory disease mainly caused by cigarette smoking. Current pharmacotherapy is aimed at relieving a distinct subset of COPD symptoms, however the anti-inflammatory drugs are less successful. During the 201 5 American Thoracic Society (ATS) annual meeting there were new combinations of existing drugs presented, and also new potential...
The anti-inflammatory and bronchodilating properties of the novel pharmacological compound Sul-121
The American Thoracic Society (ATS) is a nonprofit organization focused on improving care for pulmonary diseases,critical illnesses and sleep-related breathing disorders. The celebration of the llOth anniversary of the founding of the Society culminated at ATS 2015 with a series of special lectures that will feature the major scientific and clinical breakthroughs in our fields. Below are the re...
Keyword: ATS 2015 Cigarete smoke COPD Sul-121