Respiratory

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy don’t increase childhood asthma risk, as per a study of 14,000 mother-child pairs. Only 8.3% of children born to mothers with HDP developed asthma, not significantly different from those without HDP.

Published data has shown the COVID-19 and influenza vaccines to be 50% effective in preventing severe disease, protecting both children and adults against hospitalisation.

Use of a mobile patient lift, combined with a rehabilitation protocol, reduced the time to stand in ventilated patients in the intensive care unit, compared to the protocol alone. Read more.

A recent study has found that there was a significant association between respiratory distress and whether infants had been born to unvaccinated mothers, although none of the babies born had COVID-19 themselves.

According to recent research, adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may be more likely to develop cardiovascular diseases, including coronary heart disease, heart failure, heart attack, and diabetes.

According to a new study, mortality rates due to pulmonary embolism (PE) are higher amongst Black and male patients than those in other demographics. Read more.

According to recent research, augmentation therapy improves survival rates amongst patients with severe ɑ1 antitrypsin deficiency. The findings from this study may benefit those patients with AATD who experience a rapid decline in lung function.

Researchers evaluated patient outcomes following lung transplant surgery for COVID-19-related ARDS and COVID-19-related pulmonary fibrosis…