Researchers analyzed the association of asthma and its subgroups with osteoporosis in the Korean adult population, and determined the effects of asthma on osteoporosis based on condition of asthma management.
Antiplatelet therapy may delay progression of COPD, decrease the risk for acute exacerbations, improve quality of life, and even reduce all-cause mortality.
Several lung disease-related factors may help predict the risk for hip fracture in current and former smokers.
Early sleep fragmentation, estimated by actigraphy, was found to be associated with worse cognitive impairment shortly after critical illness.
Sleep-disordered breathing and fragmented sleep are associated with higher levels of fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1c in black adults.
Weight gain after smoking cessation partially attenuates the beneficial effect on cardiovascular morbidity.
Investigators report cardiac arrhythmias with or without apnea among patients with epilepsy are associated with increased mortality risk.
The risk for development of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and the severity of disease in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) may be affected by the location of the lesions.
