Dyspnea has an association with lifestyle: differences between Swedish and Finnish speaking persons in Western Finland

Effect of adherence to treatment guidelines on overall survival in elderly non-small-cell lung cancer patients

“…Occupational skill level did not significantly affect the likelihood of receiving guideline adherent treatment, in contrast to an earlier report, which found that lower educational level and residence in a rural county were associated with a lack of adherence to guidelines in patients with stage III NSCLC [23]. In our study population, only 9.0% of the NSCLC patients had a high occupational level, a much lower percentage than in the general population of Ostrobothnia [24].…”

Inflammatory and infectious upper respiratory diseases associate with 41 genomic loci and type 2 inflammation

“…They lead to increased morbidity 1,2 and costs 3 , and to the highest public health burden in the world 4 by serving as the main route of infection to the body, and by their connection to non-communicable diseases, such as asthma [5][6][7] , autoimmune diseases 8,9 , cardiovascular diseases 10 , and obesity 11 . Genetic predisposition [12][13][14][15] together with environmental megatrends such as the COVID-19 pandemic [16][17][18] , Western lifestyle 19 , urbanization 20,21 , global warming 22 , and dysbiosis 23,24 influence the burden of IURDs. IURDs often co-exist [25][26][27][28] , and they have shown overlapping mechanisms 5,6,29,30 .…”