Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) weighs heavily on health expenditure and is strongly
associated with increasing age. Due to population aging, increasing global prevalence of …

BACKGROUND Recent trends in physician diagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) in the UK were estimated, with a particular focus on women. METHODS A …

Prolonged exposure to inhaled corticosteroids among adults over 49 years old has been
reported to increase cataract risk. Small-scale studies of inhaled steroid users suggest that …

Indoor risk factors for physician-diagnosed asthma and wheezing in the past 12 months
without previous asthma diagnosis were assessed in a survey of parents of 5-9-year-old …

Background: Information in large, automated databases can be useful to study the natural
history of respiratory diseases in the community, but the validity of definitions needs to be …

Background: Oral corticosteroid users are at increased risk of cataract, but the risk among
intranasal corticosteroids users is unknown. Objective: Our purpose was to describe the risk …

Although there are several symptomclassification systems for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS),
for example, the Manning or Rome criteria, therehas been no previous research on how well …

Drug development involves a multi-stage process of drug discovery, animal studies and
human clinical trials to assess the safety and efficacy of new medications. Rare disease drug …

The impact of asthma and asthma-like illness was measured in a population of 5–9-year-old
Seattle public school children. Child health information was obtained from a survey of 1665 …

In recent years, several papers have been written regarding the use of centrifugal
compression technology to handle applications in which the process gas entering the …