Columnist Caroline Gainer discusses a study whose findings suggested that respiratory muscle strength training could help ...

1 Respiratory Muscle Laboratory, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, King’s College Hospital, London, UK Background: Although quadriceps weakness is well recognised in chronic obstructive ...

Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a disease of the pulmonary ... These data can directly lead to meaningful clinical interventions to aid patients with PAH. Skeletal muscle pathology likely can be ...

We hypothesised that long acting bronchodilators improve symptoms by reducing dynamic hyperinflation and work of breathing, as measured by respiratory muscle pressure-time products. WDCM is a Clinical ...

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People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience progressive airflow limitation ... Data were also extracted for physiological measures of training effects, skeletal muscle ...

School of Applied Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Wales, UK Correspondence to: Mr Gething School of Applied Sciences, University of Glamorgan, Llantwit Road, Cardiff CF37 1DL, Wales, UK; ...

The intracellular degradation of cGMP is regulated by PDEs, and PDE-5 plays a key role in the regulation of smooth muscle tone in the pulmonary vascular bed and the corpus cavernosum. 75 Sildenafil ...