...Leonie Biener; Hussein Morobeid; Carmen Pizarro; Georg Nickenig; Dirk Skowasch Introduction: Asthma patients with a smoking history are usually excluded from asthma trials to exclude smoking-related comorbidities like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Therefore, little is known about...

...: 82.6–230.1), with a right-skewed distribution. Multivariate analyses revealed that oldness (aged ≥60 years) (odds ratio [OR]: 1.66, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.11–2.48), smoking ≥20 pack-years (OR: 1.90, 95% CI: 1.20–3.00), raising a dog/cat (OR: 1.72, 95% CI: 1.17–2.52), and occupational exposure...

... influenced by exposure to tobacco smoke. Objective: To investigate the interplay between airway and lung structural changes, airway inflammation, and smoking exposure in asthmatics with IRAO. Methods: We studied asthmatics with IRAO who were further classified according to their smoking history, those...

... suggested the association between tobacco and cannabis smoking and the risk of primary spontaneous pneumothorax (PSP), but none demonstrated cannabinoids in human lung tissues. Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify cannabinoids in lung specimens of young cannabis smokers, operated for PSP...

...William G. Carlos; Mary S. Baker; Katie A. McPherson; Gabriel T. Bosslet; Rajiv Sood; Alexia M. Torke Background: Home oxygen therapy is a mainstay of treatment for patients with various cardiopulmonary diseases. In spite of warnings against smoking while using home oxygen, many patients sustain...

...Macy Mei Sze Lui; Judith Choi Wo Mak; Agnes Yuen Kwan Lai; Christopher Kim Ming Hui; Jamie Chung Mei Lam; David Chi Leung Lam; Mary Sau Man Ip Background: Endothelial dysfunction has been recognized to occur in the context of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or tobacco smoking. However...

... in the carcinogenesis of some organs. Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the correlation between smoking and the telomere length of human bronchial epithelial cells in individuals with and without lung cancer. Patients and Methods: We examined 68 non-lung cancer adult autopsy cases and 24 surgically...

...Manuel G. Cosio; Riccardo Cazzuffi; Marina Saetta Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a disease that usually presents clinically at an advanced age, after years of smoking cigarettes. It is usually believed that aging and its biological consequences are important mechanisms...

...Stephan Keusch; Florian F. Hildenbrand; Tom Bollmann; Michael Halank; Matthias Held; Ralf Kaiser; Gabor Kovacs; Tobias J. Lange; Hans-Jürgen Seyfarth; Rudolf Speich; Silvia Ulrich Background: Animal studies and data from a single-center study suggest that tobacco smoke exposure may be a risk factor...

...Carlos A. Jiménez Ruiz; Juan A. Riesco Miranda; Neus Altet Gómez; Jaime Signes Costa-Miñana; Jose Javier Lorza Blasco; Joan Ruiz Manzano; Pilar de Lucas Ramos Background: In 2005, the Spanish government approved Law 28/2005 on health measures against smoking; this was amended in 2010 by Law 42/2010...

...Rafaella Fagundes Xavier; Dionei Ramos; Juliana Tiyaki Ito; Fernanda Maria Machado Rodrigues; Giovana Navarro Bertolini; Mariangela Macchione; Alessandra Choqueta de Toledo; Ercy Mara Cipulo Ramos Background: Smoking impairs mucociliary clearance and increases respiratory infection frequency...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Airway stenting Silicone stents Smoking Tobacco A 38-year-old male patient was involved in a motor vehicle...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Airway remodeling Smoking Inflammation The pathology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) encompasses a variety of structural alterations which involve the airways, the lung parenchyma and the pulmonary...

...Wouter D. van Dijk; Jacques W.M. Lenders; Joran Holtman; Joke Grootens; Reinier Akkermans; Yvonne Heijdra; Chris van Weel; Tjard R.J. Schermer Background: Smoking and bronchodilator treatment are both extensively studied as key elements in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease...

...Ian M. Adcock; Gaetano Caramori; Peter J. Barnes Both chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer are major causes of death worldwide. In most cases this reflects cigarette smoke exposure which is able to induce an inflammatory response in the airways of smokers. Indeed, COPD...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Smoking status was assessed by self-report and categorized into current, former and never smokers as well as those exposed to passive smoking at home. Pack years (PY) were...

...J.M. García-García; J.R. Hernández; M.A. Martínez-Muñiz; A. Sánchez-Antuña; M.G. Marrón; C. Monte; J. Martínez; C. Escudero; J.M. Arribas Although cigarette smoking plays a major role in the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, risk factors that might predispose susceptible smokers...

..., this case suggests that, in PiZZ phenotype, emphysema appears earlier and is more severe if the patients smoke 1 02 1990 3 07 1990 20 1 2009 © 1990 S. Karger AG, Basel 1990 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may...

... bronchoscopy to ascertain the presence of lung cancer. Twelve of them had positive findings for epidermoid bronchogenic carcinoma, while in the remaining subjects the diagnosis was not confirmed. The 30 examined subjects were then grouped according to their smoking habit. In PVB, no significant difference...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Pulmonary emphysema Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis Smoking Original...