Sentence examples for moderate lung function from inspiring English sources

These included 35 (31.0%) with pleural thickening, most (n=27) of whom had mild to moderate lung function impairment (ARD1).

Fibrotic diseases are divided into those with mild to moderate lung function impairment (FEV1: 79–52% of predicted; FVC: 79 52% of predicted; FEV1/FVC: 75–55%) (ARD1) and those with severe lung function impairment (FEV1: <51%; FVC: <51%; FEV1/FVC: <55%) (ARD2).

For example, elderly patients, even elderly patients with no or only a few comorbidities and moderate lung function, often hesitate to undergo surgery because of concerns about postoperative complications, decline in activities of daily living, and progression of dementia, even in short-term admission.

Further studies are needed to evaluate the influence of regular PA on this and other important clinical outcomes in CF. Daily PA positively correlated with aerobic capacity in adults with CF and mild to moderate lung function impairment and was similar to healthy controls.

Because respiratory failure blood gas analysis suggests type I or type II respiratory failure) was a contraindication for surgery, we enrolled patients with mild or moderate abnormal lung function, without apparent symptoms of dyspnea.

One possible explanation is that as patients were recruited from the community with mild to moderate asthma, lung function impairment may have been too mild to demonstrate an improvement on treatment.

A cohort-study from Denmark with 14,000 participants [37] also found a two to three-fold increased RR for hospitalisation with TB for participants with moderate to severe lung function impairment compared to participants with normal lung function.

However, the mean age of 64 years, predominance of women, and the moderate impairment in lung function suggested that our sample was representative of the bronchiectasis population [ 2].

However, pancreatic blood collected 2 hours after taurocholate injection produced a moderate alteration in lung function but without significant increase in the wet-to-dry lung weight ratio (5.4 ± 0.5).

The largest group, i.e. patients with moderate to good lung function without symptoms of depression at baseline, declined from 74.9% (SD = 20.0) to 70.9% (SD = 22.1) during the two years under observation.

Depressed patients with moderate or good lung function at baseline showed the greatest decline of all four groups from an average of 59.6% (SD = 11.1%) at baseline to 52.0% (SD = 20.7%) two years later.