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ACSM: Compression Tights Don’t Improve Performance for Runners
While they kept muscles from vibrating, fatigue still set in, researchers found
ATS: Mortality Down for Patients Hospitalized With COPD in U.S.
Annual number of patients who died from COPD while in the hospital decreased 62 percent from 2005-2014
ATS: Cancer-Related Suicide Risk Highest for Lung Cancer Patients
Odds up four-fold compared to people in the general population
ATS: Bronchial Thermoplasty Has Lasting Benefits for Asthma
Reduction in severe exacerbations, hospitalizations, ER visits in first and second year of follow-up
ATS: Online Pulmonary Rehab Non-Inferior for COPD
Online supported PR was non-inferior to face-to-face model for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
ATS: Benralizumab Reduces Glucocorticoid Doses in Asthma
Significant 75 percent reduction in median final oral glucocorticoid doses from baseline
ATS: Sleep Apnea, Insomnia in Blacks Often Go Undiagnosed
High prevalence of undiagnosed sleep disorders seen in study population
ATS: Lower ARDS Mortality at High-Volume Intensive Care Units
Lower ICU mortality, hospital length of stay for acute respiratory distress syndrome at high-volume ICUs
ATS: Angiotensin II Improves BP in Vasodilatory Shock
Angiotensin II effective for vasodilatory shock in patients not responding to conventional vasopressors
Overweight Boys at Greater Risk of Colon Cancer in Adulthood
But study also found that losing weight lowered those odds
