Sat Sharma

TL;DR: Critical illness due to 2009 influenza A(H1N1) in Canada occurred rapidly after hospital admission, often in young adults, and was associated with severe hypoxemia, multisystem organ failure, a requirement for prolonged mechanical ventilation, and the frequent use of rescue therapies.

TL;DR: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to determine whether combining tiotropium with salmeterol or fluticasonesalmeterol produces greater improvements in clinical outcomes for adults with moderate or severe COPD compared with tiotopium therapy alone.

TL;DR: About one-third of obese and nonobese individuals with physician-diagnosed asthma did not have asthma when objectively assessed, which suggests that, in developed countries such as Canada, asthma is overdiagnosed.

TL;DR: In this article, the combination of inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β-agonists and anticholinergic bronchodilators for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the cardiac changes associated with participation in a marathon using serial cardiac biomarkers, echocardiography, and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging.