Respiration 2020 Jan 31
Agreement between Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test and Modified 6-Min Walk Test in Determining Oxygen Uptake in COPD Patients with Different Severity Stages.
Vonbank K, Marzluf B, Knötig M, Funk GC
In moderate-to-severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients the 6-min walk test (6MWT) is often exhaustive and correlates with the inc ...
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Source: PubMed
J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol. 2020 Jan 30
Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration and cause-specific mortality in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study.
Heath AK, Hodge AM, Ebeling PR, Kvaskoff D, Eyles DW, Giles GG, English DR, Williamson EJ
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with higher all-cause mortality, but associations with specific causes of death are unclear. We investigated the as ...
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Exp. Mol. Pathol. 2020 Jan 30
Siglec1 enhances inflammation through miR-1260-dependent degradation of I?Ba in COPD.
Li S, Jiang L, Yang Y, Cao J, Zhang Q, Zhang J, Wang R, Deng X, Li Y
It has been documented that sialic acid-binding Ig-like lectin 1 (Siglec1) is a cell surface protein with a variety of functions in the immune system. ...
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Free Radic. Biol. Med. 2020 Jan 30
Air pollution and its effects on the immune system.
Glencross DA, Ho TR, Camiña N, Hawrylowicz CM, Pfeffer PE
A well-functioning immune system is vital for a healthy body. Inadequate and excessive immune responses underlie diverse pathologies such as serious i ...
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Braz J Phys Ther 2020 Jan 22
Performance difference on the six-minute walk test on tracks of 20 and 30 meters for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: validity and reliability.
Klein SR, Gulart AA, Venâncio RS, Munari AB, Gavenda SG, Martins ACB, Mayer AF
Functional capacity assessment is important in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It can be performed by the six-minute walk ...
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