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Risk factors for wheezing in infants born in Cuba (2013)
Journal Article
Venero-Fernandez, S., Suarez-Medina, R., Mora-Faife, E., Garcia-Garcia, G., Valle-Infante, I., Gomez-Marrero, L., …Fogarty, A. W. (2013). Risk factors for wheezing in infants born in Cuba. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 106(11), https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hct143

Background: Cuba is a unique country, and despite limited economic development, has an excellent health system. However, the prevalence of asthma symptoms in children in Havana, Cuba, is unusually high.

Aim: As early life exposures are critical t... Read More about Risk factors for wheezing in infants born in Cuba.

Presence of a prothrombotic state in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a population-based case-control study (2013)
Journal Article
Navaratnam, V., Fogarty, A. W., McKeever, T. M., Thompson, N., Jenkins, G., Johnson, S. R., Dolan, G., Kumaran, M., Pointon, K., & Hubbard, R. B. (2014). Presence of a prothrombotic state in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a population-based case-control study. Thorax, 69(3), 207-215. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-203740

BACKGROUND: Laboratory studies suggest that the clotting cascade is activated in fibrotic lungs. Since humans vary in their tendency to clot due to a variety of inherited or acquired defects, we investigated whether a prothrombotic state increases th... Read More about Presence of a prothrombotic state in people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a population-based case-control study.