American Thoracic Society International Conference

Geoffrey L. Chupp, MD, director of the Yale Center for Asthma and Airways Disease, discusses the biologics of asthma.

Geoffrey L. Chupp, MD, director of the Yale Center for Asthma and Airways Disease, discusses the biologics of asthma.

DENVER — Inhaled corticosteroids put patients with COPD at an increased risk for incident pneumonia, however there appears to be a counterbalancing beneficial effect on pneumonia-associated mortality, according to study results presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

DENVER — Patients who underwent at least 1 week of mechanical ventilation had an increased risk for mortality and functional impairment 1 year after follow-up, according to study results presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

DENVER — A considerable percentage of World Trade Center responders have chronic rhinosinusitis and obstructive sleep apnea, according to study results presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

DENVER — The use of a gene-expression classifier improved the diagnostic efficacy of bronchoscopy for the detection of lung cancer in patients with suspicious pulmonary lesions, according to the results of two prospective studies.

DENVER — People living in rural or small metropolitan areas nationwide had a more than 20% increased risk for COPD than people living in larger, nonrural metro regions, according to study data presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

DENVER — Men with previously undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea and excessive daytime sleepiness were more than four times more likely to have increased risk for depression than men without either condition, according to study results presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

DENVER — Several factors, including the presence of a nodule on CT scan and persistent metaplasia, served as significant predictors of lung cancer recurrence or the development of secondary primary lung cancers, according to study results presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.

DENVER — Intermittent high-dose inhaled nitric oxide increased the percentage of methemoglobin in hospitalized infants with bronchiolitis when compared with standard oxygen therapy, according to data presented at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.