Air pollution exposure has increased extensively in recent years and there is considerable
evidence that exposure to particulate matter can lead to adverse respiratory outcomes. The …

There is increasing evidence of the adverse impact of prenatal exposure to air pollution.
This is of particular interest, as exposure during pregnancy—a crucial time span of important …

Background: Obstructive airway disease is nonuniformly distributed throughout the bronchial
tree, although the extent to which this occurs can vary among conditions. The multiple-…

Inert gas washout tests, performed using the single- or multiple-breath washout technique,
were first described over 60 years ago. As measures of ventilation distribution inhomogeneity, …

… Pifferi et al. [16] compared clinical symptoms in 98 patients with primary PCD versus …
To improve diagnostic accuracy of HSVA, CBF/p assessment should be repeated after air–…

… We subcultured a clinical isolate of a mucoid P. aeruginosa from the sputum of a subject
with cystic fibrosis overnight, grew it to stationary phase, and washed and preopsonized it by …

… all explanatory variables that showed a weak association (P < .10) in the univariable analysis
(… P value. All analyses were performed by using Stata 10 (Stata Corp, College Station, TX). …

… p<0.001) and 4 weeks of treatment (p<0.001; fig. 2a⇓) and slightly reduced the levels of
free elastase activity in induced sputum after 4 weeks of treatment (p… weeks of treatment (p<0.05; …

… 1 higher per μg·m −3 higher pre-natal PM 10 exposure, compared with 12.6 (-10.0–35.3)
mL·min −1 higher minute ventilation in infants of mothers who lived further than 150 m away (p …

Background: Acute respiratory infections (ARI) are a major cause of morbidity in infancy
worldwide, with cough and wheeze being alarming symptoms to parents. We aimed to analyze …