Sentence examples for better pulmonary function than from inspiring English sources
After 10 years of age, treated boys had significantly better pulmonary function than boys not treated and after15 years of age, 8 of 17 boys not treated required nocturnal ventilation compared with none of the 40 treated boys.
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.
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].
In addition, a more variable breathing pattern is associated with better pulmonary function in animal models of lung injury [ 47- 51].
Besides, better pulmonary functions in subjects performing yoga as well as swimming are documented [ 4, 40].
In a recent study, Ochs-Balcom et al. [ 24] reported that abdominal adiposity is a better predictor of pulmonary function than weight or BMI.
Some authors have suggested that patients with difficult-to-treat severe asthma show better baseline pulmonary function and lower fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) than do those with treatment-resistant severe asthma [ 4].
28– 30 Treated boys had significantly better pulmonary and cardiac function and remained ambulant longer than untreated boys.
However, DSP showed a much higher correlation with pulmonary function parameters than did 6MWD alone.
ARDS patients surviving after treatment with low-dose iNO had significantly better values for select pulmonary function tests at six months post-treatment than placebo-treated patients.
Furthermore, it has been suggested that CT findings correlate with the presence and the severity of morphologic emphysema better than the results of pulmonary function tests [ 17].
