Sentence examples for affect chest from inspiring English sources

We showed that an IAP higher than 12 mmHg can markedly affect chest wall elastance [ 112].

Since the diaphragm is coupled to the abdominal wall any increase in IAP may therefore affect chest wall and lung compliance [ 1].

Patients with other diagnoses or comorbidities potentially affecting chest imaging were excluded from the study [ 12].

Obesity may influence pulmonary function because excess fat accumulation in the abdominal cavity and on the chest wall affects chest mechanics, increasing the work of breathing, reducing lung volumes, rendering respiratory muscles dysfunctional, impairing gas exchange and reducing exercise tolerance [ 7, 17, 22– 26].

In particular, the influence of the abdomen appears to differ between pulmonary and extrapulmonary causes, differently affecting chest wall mechanics [ 21- 28] - with higher intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) in extrapulmonary ALI/ARDS often related to greater and more recruitable lung collapse [ 24, 26].

"The best place to apply them is on the neck and shoulders or on the part of the body you are trying to affect: the chest for resolving a cough, the lower back for healing back pain," Gillerman suggests.

Surely repeated thigh crunches would bulk up your thighs, and general starvation will normally affect your chest, face and arms before it starts sucking out of your legs?

Several factors may affect the chest wall mechanics.

Our patients used confrontive strategies in stress situations, but the results suggest that they had difficulties to handle stress-related emotions, which affect the chest pain intensity.

Further, the workers were asked whether they had had injuries or surgery affecting the chest and whether they had had heart problems, pneumonia, pleurisy, pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchial asthma or any other chest problems in the past 3 years (yes/no).

Guillain-Barré syndrome can become a medical emergency if the weakness affects the chest muscles responsible for breathing.