Sentence examples for for impaired pulmonary function from inspiring English sources

Moreover, although there is clear evidence that cigarette smoking is a major determinant for impaired pulmonary function and OLD risk, knowledge regarding the interaction effects of exposure to metals and smoking habits on pulmonary function was limited.

Methods: Lung ultrasound was performed prospectively (February 2015 to May 2016) in 30 children (19 boys, 11 girls) with positive clinical and laboratory signs of impaired pulmonary function, suspected of pneumonia, and ultrasound findings were compared with chest X-ray findings.

It also means that patients who previously were not eligible for this treatment because of pre-existent impaired pulmonary function, could then become eligible as a result of the reduction in expected radiation damage to the lung.

Pain after thoracotomy is associated with intense discomfort leading to impaired pulmonary function.

One patient was also withdrawn from treatment with cyclophosphamide due to impaired pulmonary function.

The sustained and potentially irreversible alterations of structure and function affecting both ECM as well as epithelial, endothelial and mesenchymal cells likely result in impaired pulmonary function including the development of cardiovascular diseases, i.e. pulmonary hypertension, often complicating the clinical course of patients with BPD [6].

We hypothesized that the more diffuse development of fibrosis in RAGE KO mice would lead to a more impaired pulmonary function than the WT mice.

We found that persistent infantile asthma was associated with an early increase in airway responsiveness, which likely contributed to impaired pulmonary function.

Thus, the impaired pulmonary function in the HD patients was due to the disease itself.

We have also shown that moderate levels of ETS exposure are associated with impaired pulmonary function [ 34].

40 Our results suggested that higher urinary levels of cadmium in current smokers are associated with impaired pulmonary function, which is consistent with previous findings of negative associations of urinary cadmium with pulmonary function among smokers in the US population.