Josep M. Antó

TL;DR: The GINA guidelines should change their criteria for defining airflow obstruction, and the sensitivity and specificity of fixed FEV1/FVC ratios of 0.70, 0.75 and 0.80 versus the LLN were evaluated.

TL;DR: Specific immunoglobulin G (IgG) level and specific skin testing failed to differentiate patients with mollusc shell hypersensitivity pneumonitis from other exposed workers; whereas, nonspecific skin testing, which was impaired in the patients, did differentiate.

TL;DR: Research into Barcelona asthma epidemics, employing principles of epidemiologic surveillance, has led to the identification of a specific etiologic hypothesis that has been tested using analytic designs and has enabled the causative point source to be removed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a revision parte de la base de que el conocimiento actual sobre la fisiopatologia and el cuadro clinico de la EPOC permite clasificar la información fenotipica in funcion de las siguientes dimensiones: sintomas respiratorios and estado de salud, exacerbaciones agudas, funcion pulmonar, cambios estructurales, inflamacion local y sistemica, and

TL;DR: In the hospital studied, a lower average length of stay was not associated with an improved level of appropriate utilisation and policies exclusively focused on lowering LOS may not directly lead to a reduction in inappropriate hospital utilisation.