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Pulmonary manifestations in smoking-related diseases : clinical studies with emphasis on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and rheumatoid arthritis
(2014-10-03)
Smoking is a risk factor for a number of diseases including chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Cigarette smoke initiates
an inflammatory response which leads to structural changes ...
Diabetes mellitus and coronary artery surgery : clinical and epidemiological studies
(2008-12-26)
Objectives: Assess early and late mortality and incidence of acute
myocardial infarction (AMI) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)
in patients with and without diabetes mellitus (DM) in relation to type
of ...
Molecular and epidemiological investigations of lung involvement in very early rheumatoid arthritis
(2015-11-26)
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic inflammatory joint disease with at least two distinct clinical phenotypes defined by the presence or absence of antibodies, i.e. rheumatoid factor (RF) and/or anti-citrullinated ...
Quantitative MRI biomarkers of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis
(2022-02-28)
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disease that targets myelin in the brain and spinal cord. The corpus callosum connects the cerebral hemispheres and is composed of ...
The kynurenine pathway in body and brain : relation with physical exercise and mental health
(2021-04-29)
The kynurenine pathway of tryptophan degradation is the focus in a variety of research fields and several of the metabolites produced along the pathway are suggested as future biomarkers. Growing interest in a better ...