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The Healio Editors compiled the most-read news in pulmonology posted in March.
Obesity, pulmonary function may identify need for home oxygen after lung cancer surgery
Obesity and diffusing capacity of the lungs for carbon monoxide were significant risk factors for home oxygen use after pulmonary resection surgery, according to data published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
Updated lung cancer screening guidance broadens eligibility, but challenges remain
Healio spoke with Peter J. Mazzone, MD, MPH, director of the Lung Cancer Program and Lung Cancer Screening Program at the Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Respiratory Institute, about how the 2021 changes to the USPSTF lung cancer screening guidelines have affected the number of patients being screened, improvements in patient outcomes and how specialists should continue to prepare for the effects of the updated guidelines.
Chronic bronchitis associated with increased mortality in current, former smokers
Nonobstructive chronic bronchitis was associated with increased mortality in current and former smokers, according to a review and meta-analysis published in Chest.
High alcohol consumption, smoking linked to neurodegeneration, MS risk in UK adults
High alcohol use was associated with more severe neurodegeneration and smoking was linked with greater probability of MS diagnosis, according to a U.K. study published in JAMA Network Open.
E-cigarettes linked to greater odds for prediabetes
E-cigarette use was associated with greater odds for prediabetes among U.S. adults, according to findings published in the American Journal of Preventive Health.
Exposure to diesel exhaust harmful to former smokers with COPD
Former smokers with COPD may be more susceptible to inflammatory responses to short-term exposure to moderate concentrations of diesel exhaust than former smokers without COPD or healthy never smokers, researchers reported.
Nasal exhalation of e-cigarette, hookah aerosols may raise lung inflammation, cancer risk
Many e-cigarette and hookah smokers exhale aerosols through the nose, which may increase risk for lung inflammation and nose, sinus and throat cancers, according to findings published in Tobacco Use Insights.
Periconceptional smoking delays embryonic development, affects birth outcomes
Smoking during the periconceptional period was associated with delays in embryonic development, which cannot be offset later in pregnancy, according to findings published in Human Reproduction.
Major cardiovascular risk factors common yet undertreated in patients with COPD
Among patients with COPD, major cardiovascular risk factors were common but inadequately monitored, treated and controlled, researchers reported in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.