Chest
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Prenatal and Postnatal Household Air Pollution Exposures and Pneumonia Risk: Evidence From the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study.
Nearly 40% of the world's population is exposed daily to household air pollution. The relative impact of prenatal and postnatal household air pollution exposure on early childhood pneumonia, a leading cause of mortality, is unknown. ⋯ Prenatal household air pollution exposure increased risk of pneumonia and severe pneumonia in the first year of life. Clean-burning interventions may be most effective when begun prenatally.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Personalised Variable vs Fixed Dose Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy in Hospitalized Patients with Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Prospective, Multicentered, Randomised, Open-Label Clinical Trial.
Systemic corticosteroids for the treatment of COPD exacerbations decrease treatment failure and shorten the length of hospitalization. However, the optimal dose is unclear. ⋯ ClinicalTrials.gov; No.: NCT02147015; URL: www.clinicaltrials.gov.