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Interstitial lung abnormalities linked to respiratory disease risk

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To this end, they conducted a study that included 3,972 participants with a 10-pack-year or greater smoking history who underwent a baseline chest CT exam and a follow-up exam five years later between November 2007 and July 2017 (patient data was part of the COPDGene study).

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Lung Abnormality Progression Linked to Acute Respiratory Disease in Smokers

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associate physician in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and postdoctoral fellow at the Applied Chest Imaging Laboratory, Harvard Medical School in Boston. “In Severe acute respiratory disease episodes require an emergency room visit or hospitalization. “We

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Managing the Patient with Alcohol Intoxication

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Osna 2017) Alcohol can contribute to pancreatitis, CKD, epilepsy, and countless other conditions. Assess for head and neck trauma : A 2014 study out of NYU/Bellevue Hospital found that 39% of patients who frequented the emergency department with acute alcohol intoxication had a moderate to severe brain injury over a three-year period.