The aim of this study was to determine whether assessment of early CT scan-detected bronchiectasis in young children with cystic fibrosis (CF) depends on... ...

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Lung function measures in a health, unsedated 1- and 2-year-old children in a South African birth cohort study ...

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• 2016
• November 2016

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Lung function is highly heritable and differs between the sexes throughout life. However, little is known about sexdifferential genetic effects on lung function. We aimed to conduct the first genome-wide genotype-by-sex interaction study on lung function to identify genetic effects that differ between males and females. ...

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• 2021
• May 2021

The Global Lung Function Initiative (GLI) Network has become the largest resource for reference values for routine lung function testing ever assembled. ...

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• 2017
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Cross-sectional studies implicate neutrophilic inflammation and pulmonary infection as risk factors for early structural lung disease in infants and young... ...

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• 2012
• June 2012

Biomarkers in cystic fibrosis are used for the measurement of cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator function in order to diagnose cystic fibrosis,... ...

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• 2015
• January 2015

Asthma is the most common chronic lung disease in childhood. There has been a significant worldwide effort to develop tools/methods to identify children's risk for asthma as early as possible for preventative and early management strategies. Unfortunately, most childhood asthma prediction tools using conventional statistical models have modest accuracy, sensitivity, and positive predictive value. ...

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• 2021
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Background: We assessed the effect of posture on ventilation distribution and the impact on associations with structural lung disease. ...

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• 2017
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Lung clearance index may be a useful surveillance tool to monitor structural lung disease in preschool and school-age children with cystic fibrosis ...

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• 2016
• January 2016