Epidemiological studies indicate that exposure to diesel exhaust (DE) is associated with vascular-based disorders. ...

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• 2014
• January 2014

One in eight children have asthma, a chronic disease of the airways in the lungs. It results in shortness of breath, chest tightness, wheezing and coughing. ...

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Rachel Graham Foong Hall RF GL BSc (hons), PhD, MBiostat BAppSci PhD CRFS FANZSRS FThorSoc FERS Senior Research Fellow Honorary Research Associate 08 6319 1626 Rachel.Foong@telethonkids.org.au Senior Research Fellow Honorary Research Associate Dr ...

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Antimicrobial resistance is a current global health crisis, and the increasing emergence of multidrug resistant infections has led to the resurgent interest in bacteriophages as an alternative treatment. ...

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• 2021
• November 2021

We aimed to systematically review and assess the performance of all published models that predicted development of COPD ...

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• 2018
• June 2018

Alexander Anthony Larcombe Kicic A A BScEnv (Hons) PhD BSc (Hons) PhD Team Leader, Respiratory Environmental Health Rothwell Family Fellow; Head, Airway Epithelial Research Anthony.Kicic@telethonkids.org.au Team Leader, Respiratory Environmental ...

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The authors assessed the impact of including preschool‐aged children with a history of preterm birth, early life wheeze, asthma diagnoses and/or recent respiratory symptoms in healthy reference ranges for respiratory impedance using the forced oscillation technique (FOT). ...

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• 2018
• April 2018

No evidence to demonstrate relationships with symptoms and viruses, prolonged symptoms, prolonged shedding or patterns of virus infections in CF ...

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• 2014
• December 2014

Although formaldehyde concentrations were very low, this finding is consistent with other studies of formaldehyde and poor birth outcomes ...

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• 2019
• April 2019

In disease settings, vitamin D may be important for maintaining optimal lung epithelial integrity and suppressing inflammation, but less is known of its effects prior to disease onset. ...

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• 2017
• August 2017

When performing computerized tomography chest imaging in children, obtaining high quality, motion-free images is important in the accurate diagnosis of underlying pathology. General anesthesia is associated with the development of atelectasis, which can impair accurate diagnosis by obscuring or altering the appearance of the lung parenchyma or airways. ...

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• 2022
• April 2022

Britta Regli-von Ungern-Sternberg BRVUS MD, PhD, DEAA, FANZA Chair of Paediatric anaesthesia, University of Western Australia; Consultant Paediatric Anaesthetist, Perth Children’s Hospital; Team Leader, Perioperative Medicine Team; Program Lead, ...

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• 2021
• December 2021