Assessment of serum interleukin 6 level in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: is it related to disease severity?
Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common disease that can be prevented and even treated. It leads to high morbidity and mortality rates. Pro-inflammatory cytokines an...
Airway inflammatory biomarkers in different asthma phenotypes
Background Asthma is a diverse disease with various phenotypes. Correlation of clinical asthma phenotypes with their underlying inflammatory biomarkers could help tailor asthma management and i...
Does vitamin D deficiency worsen the clinical and functional parameters of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients?
Introduction There is not much data about the effect of deficient vitamin D on stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients and its relation to the disease severity.
Objecti...
Cardiovascular comorbidities associated with patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – a hospital-based study
Background Most patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have cardiovascular comorbidities (CVD), which significantly contribute to the mortality and morbidity in these patien...
Functional and radiological characteristics of asthma combined chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overlap
Background Persons with asthma–chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap (ACO) are a crucial but poorly characterized group. In spite of the numbers of patients with ACO have i...
Egyptian Journal of Bronchology, a publication of Egyptian Scientific Society of Bronchology, is a peer-reviewed online journal with print on demand compilation of issues published. The journal’s full text is available online at http://www.ejbronchology.eg.net.