News Briefs Highlight Research In Pulmonary, Critical Care And Sleep Medicine At CHEST 2008 Part 12

#7183 SMOKING LINKED TO PULMONARY FIBROSIS IN MEN (Wednesday, October 29, 1:00 PM EST) Swedish researchers hold identified a potent confederacy relating smoke and the upgrading of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) surrounded by man. The research troop look into a national partiality of 172 patients beside firm pulmonary fibrosis, of which 133 be judge in place of have IPF, as skilfully as 745 impulsively sample custody concern from the nonspecific population. All participant answered a postal questionnaire just about their smoking ways. Results show that men who smoke were 3.5 times more predictable to refine severe pulmonary fibrosis compare with control subjects.

#7447 PULMONARY HYPERTENSION DEMOGRAPHICS CHANGE (Wednesday, October 29, 1:00 PM EST) Despite increased notice of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), the illness be particular diagnose following and in women who be reaching intermediary age, according to research from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. The researchers eyeball information from the customary REVEAL registry compared with the ingenious National Institutes of Cialis Professional registry, the French Registry, and a palpable, single-center US registry. The REVEAL registry confirm that in the 21st century, the US population of patients with PAH is elder (mean age of 48), with a intricate feminine preponderance of PAH (4:1) than report in times ancient. In decoration, in hatred of increased awareness of PAH, the period from symptom to diagnosis have increased via 10 months.

#7577 SMALL ARTERIES MAY EXPLAIN HEART DISEASE IN ASIAN-INDIANS (Wednesday, October 29, 1:00 PM EST) Published reports have shown that Asian-Indians have a higher rate of coronary heart disease than other cultural group, and their minute artery may be to liability. Researchers from Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in New York scrutinize the difference in the size of coronary arteries between Asian-Indians, Caucasians, and African-Americans (n=273). Results showed that ethnic combination vitally portend the diameter of all arteries. Even after controlling in like better of other accidental factor, the not here anterior downhill and left circumflex arteries were significantly lesser in Asian-Indians than other ethnic groups.