PurposePulmonary function tests (PFT) are a component of heart transplant (HT) evaluation. In cardiac surgery, abnormal PFTs, especially reduced DLCO, associated with poor outcomes. We sought to evaluate the impact pre-HT PFTs on post-HT pulmonary outcomes.MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed 235 consecutive HT recipients and collected data including PFTs. PFT patterns were classified according A...

Purpose: This study was planned to evaluate the relationship between pulmonary function and some anthropometric measurements body composition in healthy young women with different mass index (BMI). 
 Materials Methods: One hundred seventeen (n:117) women, aged 19-30 years, participated this study. Some of participants (body weight, height, waist circumference, hip neck circumference) were ...

Abstract Study aim : To asses and compare the aerobic capacity respiratory parameters in recreational basketball-engaged university students with age-matched untrained young adults. Material methods A total of 30 subjects were selected to took part study based on recreational-basketball activity level assigned a basketball (BG: n = 15, age 22.86 ± 1.35 yrs., body height 185.07 5.95 cm, weight 8...

background: vitamin d deficiency seems to be associated with pulmonary function deterioration. the present study was designed to investigate the relationship between serum vitamin d and forced expiratory volume in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd). methods: from september 2011 to april 2012 eighty consecutive patients with copd presented to an outpatient clinic of babol...

Aim: Being overweight and obesity are factors in the negative modification of bronchial asthma (BA). The mechanisms aggravating effect on course BA have not yet been fully determined, but include changes external respiration. aim study was to being overweight/obesity spirometric parameters occurrence dysanapsis children adolescents with BA. Methods: It a cross-sectional, open, single-center stu...

AIMS To investigate the early pattern of longitudinal change in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) among new Chinese coal miners, and the relation between coal mine dust exposure and the decline of lung function. METHODS The early pattern of lung function changes in 317 newly hired Chinese underground coal miners was compared to 132 referents. This three year prospective cohort study...

BACKGROUND Cystic fibrosis (CF) is the most common inherited disease affecting northern European populations. It is characterized by a progressive clinical course that causes diurnal and nocturnal pulmonary and gastrointestinal symptoms. OBJECTIVES To determine whether clinically stable pediatric patients with CF have lower sleep efficiency than healthy control subjects, and to examine the re...

BACKGROUND Individuals with severely impaired lung function have an increased risk of lung cancer. Whether milder reductions in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV(1)) also increase the risk of lung cancer is controversial. Moreover, there is little consensus on whether men and women have similar risks for lung cancer for similar decreases in FEV(1). METHODS A search was conducted of Pu...

BACKGROUND The metabolism of xenobiotics plays an essential role in smoking related lung function loss and development of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2-Like 2 (NFE2L2 or NRF2) and its cytosolic repressor Kelch-like ECH-associated protein-1 (KEAP1) regulate transcription of enzymes involved in cellular detoxification processes and Nfe2l2-deficient mice develop...