Pulmonary Disease

An American College of Surgeons initiative reduced postoperative hospitalization among older adults with cancer, according to study findings.

Despite living far away from Canada, Maryland residents experienced more cardiopulmonary disease health concerns in June 2023 believed to be due to Canadian wildfire pollution, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Lesbian, gay and bisexual survivors of adolescent and young cancer are twice as likely to develop chronic health conditions than their heterosexual counterparts, according to a study published in Cancer.

Generic fluticasone-salmeterol demonstrated similar safety and effectiveness as the brand-name version among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to researchers.

Patients with GERD experienced more incidences of nontuberculous mycobacteria pulmonary disease than patients without GERD, according to study results published in CHEST.

Patients with sarcoidosis of different races and sexes had differing frequencies of lung function impairment phenotypes, according to study results published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

In a new study, both anxiety and depression were common in patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease and were associated with respiratory and systemic symptoms.

Older adults with nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease have significantly greater likelihood for hospitalization, higher hospitalization rates and shorter time to hospitalization than those without, researchers reported.

Among patients with HF discharged from a hospital in Sweden, 20.3% were readmitted to the hospital within 30 days, and 60.9% were readmitted within 1 year, researchers reported.

Nitrogen multiple-breath washout identified more cases of pulmonary dysfunction in childhood cancer survivors compared with spirometry, researchers reported in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.