Patients in the placebo group appeared slightly healthier at baseline, with somewhat higher BMI and better pulmonary function, but these did not achieve statistical significance.
58 Mahadeva and colleagues 47 reported that patients who attended specialist centres in Manchester had higher body mass indexes, higher chest radiograph scores, and better pulmonary function than patients in Cambridge who did not receive any centralised care.
The control subjects were significantly younger, with no male dominance, more nonsmokers, fewer pack-years, and better pulmonary function; however, there was no difference in the body mass index.
Post hoc analyses using the Tukey HSD test indicated that for FVC, FEV1 and DLCO, participants with a normal CXR had better pulmonary function from those with evidence of both interstitial and pleural abnormalities.
In a single-institution study, the authors noted that surgery patients were less likely to have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and typically had better pulmonary function, while those who did not have surgery most often had advanced disease (75%), poor pulmonary function (5%), or refused (4%).
In fact, despite that women with asthma or COPD account for the majority of emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalisations for asthma [ 34- 39] as well as a large proportion of hospitalisations for COPD [ 40], women who present to the ED have been found to receive more outpatient care and to have better pulmonary function than men [ 34].
Conclusions: Children diagnosed with CF early, asymptomatically and more recently may have better pulmonary function throughout early childhood, probably as a result of improved CF treatments in recent years.
Airspace collapse as shown by a thoracic CT scan is associated with hypoxemia in early ALI/ARDS [ 1, 3] and can be reversed with a maximum lung recruitment strategy that can be applied to critically ill patients and may lead to 2 better pulmonary function at hospital discharge [ 3].
Because moderate alcohol intake appears to reduce cardiovascular disease risk, we hypothesized that moderate alcohol intake is associated with better pulmonary function.
