The clinical implication of this finding is that when PEEP is applied to a tachypneic flow-limited patient, we have in most cases an increase of total PEEP lower than half of the applied PEEP, whereas greater increases of hyperinflation are typical of patients without flow limitation.
Rubin et al. [ 25] and Torvinen et al. [ 3] speculated that a population with osteopenia or osteoporosis could obtain greater increases of BMD due to low baseline scores.
We also observed that men consuming both glucose- and fructose-sweetened beverages exhibited greater increases of postprandial carbohydrate oxidation than women.
In terms of the mechanics of cardiovascular performance, greater increases of left ventricular contractility indices were associated with survival in patients with septic shock (Table 2).
The association between baseline urinary arsenic and the increase in sVCAM-1 appears to be dose response, with greater increases of plasma sVCAM-1 observed at higher quartiles of urinary arsenic.
The United States has mandated the production of 36 billion gallons of biofuels by 2022, with even greater increases of up to 60 billion gallons by 2030 proposed by the new administration [ 1, 6].
