By using longitudinal data, this study was able to differentiate among the 2,017 respondents with asthma, between those with a pre-pandemic history of depression (n=770) and those who had never experienced depression prior to the pandemic (n=1247).
For the diagnosis of ILD, what is very important is that you should take a proper history from the patient, along with that you take a radiology, either with x-ray and CT. The HRCT plays the major role, that is high resolution CT scan plays a major role in the diagnosis of ILD and also in the grouping of different ILDs.
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati in the US found that a one-unit increase in particulate matter 2.5 was associated with a 60 per cent higher chance of hospitalisation for Covid-19 patients with pre-existing respiratory disease.
Rema.NagarajanIndia is not on course to meet the goal of a 50% reduction in TB incidence and 75% reduction in TB deaths by 2025, a paper by several experts has concluded. Analysing data up to 2018, the paper points out that deaths were down by just 8.3% and incidence by 5.3% since 2015.
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Dr Sumeet V K Singhania, Consultant Pulmonary Medicine, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Medical Research Institute, Mumbai, to know more about the role and impact of non-invasive ventilation in respiratory medicine.
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