[HTML][HTML] The impact of alcohol use disorder on tuberculosis: a review of the epidemiology and potential immunologic mechanisms

GW Wigger, TC Bouton, KR Jacobson… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Globally, an estimated 107 million people have an alcohol use disorder (AUD) leading to 2.8
million premature deaths each year. Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the leading causes of death …

Lessons to learn from epidemiologic studies in ARDS

BA McNicholas, GM Rooney… - Current Opinion in Critical …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
ARDS exerts a substantial disease burden, with 40% of patients dying in hospital. Diverse
factors, including patient-related factors such as age and illness severity, country level …

Alcohol dependence and physical comorbidity: Increased prevalence but reduced relevance of individual comorbidities for hospital-based mortality during a 12.5-year …

D Schoepf, R Heun - European Psychiatry, 2015 - cambridge.org
Purpose: Alcohol dependence (AD) is associated with an increase in physical comorbidities.
The effects of these diseases on general hospital-based mortality are unclear …

Alcohol and lung injury and immunity

SM Yeligar, MM Chen, EJ Kovacs, JH Sisson… - Alcohol, 2016 - Elsevier
Annually, excessive alcohol use accounts for more than $220 billion in economic costs and
80,000 deaths, making excessive alcohol use the third leading lifestyle-related cause of …

Cut‐point levels of phosphatidylethanol to identify alcohol misuse in a mixed cohort including critically ill patients

M Afshar, EL Burnham, C Joyce… - Alcoholism: Clinical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background Although alcohol misuse is associated with deleterious outcomes in critically ill
patients, its detection by either self‐report or examination of biomarkers is difficult to obtain …

Liver cirrhosis is independently associated with 90-day mortality in ARDS patients

A Gacouin, M Locufier, F Uhel, J Letheulle, P Bouju… - Shock, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Background: In a few studies, cirrhosis has been associated with increased mortality in
patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). These studies were, however …

Alcohol, nicotine, and iatrogenic withdrawals in the ICU

DK Awissi, G Lebrun, M Fagnan, Y Skrobik - Critical care …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: The neurophysiology, risk factors, and screening tools associated with alcohol
withdrawal syndrome in the ICU are reviewed. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome assessment …

Prevalence and impact of active and passive cigarette smoking in acute respiratory distress syndrome

SJ Hsieh, H Zhuo, NL Benowitz… - Critical care …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Cigarette smoke exposure has recently been found to be associated with
increased susceptibility to trauma-and transfusion-associated acute respiratory distress …

[HTML][HTML] Salvianolic acid B attenuates lipopolysaccharide‑induced acute lung injury in rats through inhibition of apoptosis, oxidative stress and inflammation

DH Zhao, YJ Wu, ST Liu, RY Liu - Experimental and …, 2017 - spandidos-publications.com
The present study was performed to assess the protective effect of salvianolic acid B on
lipopolysaccharide (LPS)‑induced acute lung injury (ALI). Sprague Dawley rats were …

Environmental risk factors for acute respiratory distress syndrome

F Moazed, CS Calfee - Clinics in chest medicine, 2014 - chestmed.theclinics.com
The acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) represents a significant health burden.
Despite numerous efforts to identify effective treatments, few have been successful. As a …