Household air pollution (HAP) can influence adult respiratory health. More prospective studies are needed, taking into account combined effects and patterns of HAP exposure, gene-environment interactions.https://bit.ly/3lXc3g7

Significant changes have been made on audio-based technologies over years in several different fields. Healthcare is no exception. One of such avenues health screening based respiratory sounds. In this paper, we developed a tool to detect sounds that come from infection carrying patients. Linear Predictive Cepstral Coefficient (LPCC)-based features were used characterize audio clips. With Multi...

Seventy five patients with chronic respiratory disability were randomised to a group visited by a respiratory health worker (42) or control group (33). The first group was visited monthly by a respiratory nurse, who gave education and support. The effect of the intervention was assessed in terms of quality of life (by questionnaires), the number and duration of admissions to hospital, and the n...

  Background: Respiratory diseases/syndromes are the most common causes of referring to physicians among pilgrims in Hajj . They lead to high morbidity , impose high costs on the health system and are among the major obstacles for pilgrims to perform Hajj duties. The main aim of our study was to determine types, frequencies, etiologies, and epidemiologic factors of respiratory diseases among Ir...

Numerous studies have observed health effects of particulate air pollution. Compared to early studies that focused on severe air pollution episodes, recent studies are more relevant to understanding health effects of pollution at levels common to contemporary cities in the developed world. We review recent epidemiologic studies that evaluated health effects of particulate air pollution and conc...