...Charlotte E. Bolton; Wiebke Schumacher; John R. Cockcroft; Nicholas J. Timpson; George Davey Smith; John Gallacher; Anne Rumley; Gordon D. Lowe; Shah Ebrahim; Dennis J. Shale; Yoav Ben-Shlomo Systemic CRP (C-reactive protein) has been associated with impaired lung function. A causal relationship...

... in the lungs and systemically. Reduced physical activity is a well-recognized consequence of the condition, but we argue here that inactivity is itself an early cause of lung function decline and symptoms. This hypothesis is supported by data from population studies that link activity levels to decline...

... inspiratory muscle strength. Correspondence: Dr Wolfram Windisch (email [email protected] ). 9 7 2007 16 8 2007 3 9 2007 3 9 2007 © The Authors Journal compilation © 2008 Biochemical Society 2008 exercise lung function pulmonary heart disease...

... corticosteroid fibrosis lung function matrix remodelling Airway remodelling is a term that indicates changes in the composition, quantity and organization of the cellular and molecular components of the airway wall, alterations considered secondary to chronic injury and repair of the airway...

... the sympathetic (low-frequency) and vagal (high-frequency) components of heart rate variability, in supine and upright positions, in 10 patients with systemic sclerosis, 12 patients with primary Raynaud's phenomenon and 14 controls. We also analysed lung function in order to evaluate a possible link between heart...

... correlated with severity of breathlessness and length of symptom-history but not with left ventricular end-diastolic or pulmonary vein wedge pressures. 19 2 1975 © 1975 The Biochemical Society and the Medical Research Society 1975 closing volume heart disease lung function Clinical...

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