Lung Disease

Editor’s Note: This is part one of a two-part Healio Exclusive series on nutrition and lung health. Part two can be viewed here.

BOSTON — BACES score in Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease is linked to clinical treatment outcomes and may be able to predict clinical improvement, according to data presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

Following military deployment, veterans who served in Southwest Asia and Afghanistan had poorer lung function if they experienced more intense inhalation exposures, according to results published in Respiratory Medicine.

In adulthood, the risk for COPD rose with regular cigarette smoking starting before age 15 years, according to results published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

Compared with illnesses like cancer, heart failure and dementia, patients with end-stage kidney disease alone have among the lowest rates of survival after 5 years, Stanford University researchers reported in a published study.

Through the power of technology, interventional pulmonology has grown to become a major subspecialty that aids in early diagnosis and treatment of severe lung diseases, such as lung cancer.

Between 2017 and 2023, more than 1,000 cases of progressive massive fibrosis emerged in coal miners, according to a research letter published in JAMA.

Assistance from artificial intelligence enhanced nonradiologists’ ability to detect lung lesions on chest radiographs, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

The historical climate events of the past summer may have been eye-opening for all, but the health of patients with respiratory diseases and conditions has been particularly threatened due to these exposures.

Respiratory diseases in Asian patients are not fully understood because much of this research is performed in European patients, and this can have a major impact on diagnosis and treatment, according to a press release.