With that in mind, Medscape Medical News asked leading primary care physicians for their advice and insight on navigating the ...

while a test with poor specificity will result in healthy persons being told that they have the disease, producing false-positive results. Prevalence rates of low lung function increase with age ...

Respiratory muscle strength and balance are strong predictors of walking speed in older adults at day care communities who do ...

COPD significantly impairs respiratory function and reduces exercise capacity. Rehabilitation exercises, particularly ...

Objective: To explore the role of physical activity in maintaining cardiac and respiratory function in healthy people. Methods: Cardiorespiratory fitness was measured by a maximal treadmill test (MTT) ...

Adding two weeks of continuous positive airway pressure for preterm infants in the hospital substantially improves lung ...

McEvoy's research team plans to continue to study the children from the randomized trial at OHSU through age 10, with yearly lung function tests to investigate the duration of the benefit of ...