Chronic respiratory diseases: epidemiological monitoring and prevention

Global surveillance, prevention and control of chronic respiratory diseases: a comprehensive approach Prevention and control of chronic respiratory diseases at country level Prevention of allergy and allergic asthma Policy documents WHO strategy for prevention and control of chronic respiratory diseases

Chronic Diseases Prevention Review

Investigate the clinical characteristics of advanced renal cell carcinoma associated with von Hippel-Lindau syndrome to improve the clinicians' understanding and reduce the incidence of missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis. Retrospective analysis of clinical data of 1 patient which suffered VHL syndrome complicated with advanced renal cell carcinoma in urology of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital Affili...

Chronic Diseases Prevention Review

Previous studies have suggested a critical role for interleukin IL-17F in innate and adaptive immunity in vivo and its abnormal expression was found to play a bridging role in several neurological disorders. In this study, we investigated the association between functional polymorphisms in IL-17F and Tourette’s syndrome (TS) in a Chinese Han population. We recruited 407 TS nuclear family trios ...

Cytokines in chronic respiratory diseases

Cytokines are small, secreted proteins that control immune responses. Within the lung, they can control host responses to injuries or infection, resulting in clearance of the insult, repair of lung tissue, and return to homeostasis. Problems can arise when this response is over exuberant and/or cytokine production becomes dysregulated. In such cases, chronic and repeated inflammatory reactions ...

Pneumococcal vaccination and chronic respiratory diseases

Patients with COPD and other chronic respiratory diseases are especially vulnerable to viral and bacterial pulmonary infections, which are major causes of exacerbations, hospitalization, disease progression, and mortality in COPD patients. Effective vaccines could reduce the burden of respiratory infections and acute exacerbations in COPD patients, but what is the evidence for this? This articl...