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Experts warn that the lung health of India's youth is deteriorating, with increasing cases of lung cancer and respiratory ...
Asthma is a common cause of sudden breathlessness However other illnesses can trigger the condition too Here’s how you can differentiate between asthma-related shortness of breath and other serious ca ...
Heart failure is another cause, where the heart’s ability to pump weakens, letting fluid build up in the lungs and making ...
Young people who vape perform as badly as smokers in exercise testing, according to a new study. Non-vapers did far better ...
More than 14% of Indians aged 45 and above may be living with obstructive lung disease, according to a new analysis by an ...
Sensitivities to major sensory sources such as sound, light, touch, smell, or texture can persist into old age for adults ...
Children exposed to their parents’ cigarette smoke may unknowingly pass on lung damage to their own children and grandchildren, increasing the risk of chronic respiratory diseases, a new study has ...
Children of fathers exposed to secondhand smoke in childhood are more likely to develop poor lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by middle age.
Chronic lung disease evident on HRCT is prominent among adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV and is linked to small airway obstruction.
Increased triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index values are strongly associated with decreased lung function in healthy individuals.
Paternal prepubertal passive smoke exposure is linked to impaired lung function trajectories in offspring, extending into middle age and increasing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk.
Participants with breathlessness (defined as a composite of patient-reported shortness of breath; tachypnoea (respiratory rate ≥25/min); hypoxaemia (SpO 2 <94%) or treatment with oxygen) were ...