Lung sounds and lung function: videocassette and booklet.

Reduced Lung Function and Progression to Prediabetes: A Prospective Study

Objective: Prediabetes is a state that people have blood glucose levels higher than normal but still not in diabetes range. There is a close relationship between impaired lung function and diabetes mellitus (DM). Reduced lung function can be present before the clinical evidence of diabetes or insulin resistance. Materials and Methods: The total number of subjects in this longitudinal study was ...

Lung Sounds

compactifications and function spaces on weighted semigruops

chapter one is devoted to a moderate discussion on preliminaries, according to our requirements. chapter two which is based on our work in (24) is devoted introducting weighted semigroups (s, w), and studying some famous function spaces on them, especially the relations between go (s, w) and other function speces are invesigated. in fact this chapter is a complement to (32). one of the main fea...

Bronchial provocation determined by breath sounds compared with lung function.

Bronchial provocation testing with methacholine was undertaken in 15 children aged 5 to 8 years with obstructive lung disease, mostly asthma (13/15). The methacholine was inhaled during two minutes of tidal breathing in increasing concentrations. After each inhalation, lung function was measured and clinical signs recorded independently by two observers unaware of each other's results. The loga...

Crackle sounds and lung recruitment PhD Thesis