Sentence examples for exacerbations appear from inspiring English sources

IPF exacerbations appear more frequently than previously thought and represent a common terminal event [ 7, 8].

Our study demonstrated that pulmonary exacerbations appear to be reduced in patients with CF lung disease of any severity during active use of inhaled HS.

Bronchial infection is the most common cause and patients with frequent exacerbations appear to have a more rapid decline in quality of life [ 5].

It is widely accepted that the probability of bacterial infection is higher in exacerbations appearing in severe COPD patients.

Also, the frequency of acute exacerbations appears to be a stable trait [ 4], supporting genetic susceptibility, and loci associated with COPD exacerbations have been identified [ 5, 6].

Simultaneous sputum cultures did not identify genera increasing their abundance in one third of the exacerbations appearing in severe COPD patients.

Though exacerbation-prone COPD patients had more severe airflow obstruction than the stable COPD patients, the association between lower anti-VP1 IgG1 antibody concentrations and COPD exacerbations appeared to be independent of FEV1 (Table 2 and 3).

This finding led us to conclude that the residual confounding of the within-season temporal patterns in ozone and asthma exacerbations appears to act as a primary driver of our observed counterintuitive negative associations.

The mechanism of action for the viral induction of asthma exacerbations appears to be related to insufficient IFN-γ and IL-10 response and augmented IL-4, IL-5, IL-13 response.

In susceptible individuals with asthma and COPD patients, exacerbation appears to be the important molecular mechanism by which UFPs exert their toxicity (Silkoff et al. 2005).

When exacerbation appears, this value increases well above the stability reference level for genera such as Haemophilus, Moraxella and Streptococcus, all of which include pathogenic species.