Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a major respiratory illness in Canada that
is both preventable and treatable. Our understanding of the pathophysiology of this complex …

Cancer is a devastating disease that takes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people
every year. Due to disease heterogeneity, standard treatments, such as chemotherapy or …

BACKGROUND:COPD is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States as
well as throughout the rest of the world. An exacerbation of COPD (periodic escalations of …

• Data for this report come from a nationally representative probability sample survey of
noninstitutionalized adults, aged 18 to 79 years. The survey, conducted in 1979, found that …

Background: Treatment of moderate or severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
with combinations of inhaled corticosteroids, long-acting β-agonists, and long-acting …

… Despite this, he remains short of breath walking 50 m to 75 m on level ground at a slow pace.
As a result, he has given up golf and playing with his grandchildren. He has not suffered an …

Dyspnea is a cardinal symptom of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and its
severity and magnitude increases as the disease progresses, leading to significant disability …

… In Section 3 we showed that SQA can exactly model the M / M / K / JSQ / PS system (exponential
job-size distribution). We now look at general job-size distributions. We start in Section …

BACKGROUND: Several sets of Canadian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of
asthma have been published over the past 15 years. Since the last revision of the 1999 …

… Hailey D, Jacobs P, Stickland M, et al. Pulmonary rehabilitation for chronic obstructive pulmonary
… Etnier JL, Berry M. Fluid intelligence in an older COPD sample after short- or long-term …