Background Bronchiectasis remains a major public health problem, but factors influencing
its natural history are not well characterized. The objective of our study was to explore …

Bronchiectasis is a multidimensional disease and, therefore, its severity or prognosis cannot
be adequately quantified by analysing one single variable. The objective of the present …

Rationale: The prevalence of bronchiectasis is high in patients with moderate-to-severe
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and it has been associated with exacerbations …

OBJECTIVES: 1) To determine whether severe exacerbation of COPD is a BODE index
independent risk factor for death; 2) whether the combined application of exacerbations and …

… Author contributions: Dr Martínez-García: contributed to the design of the study and the
collection and analysis of the data; he is also the main author of the manuscript. …

Rationale: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a risk factor for cardiovascular death in middle-aged
subjects, but it is not known whether it is also a risk factor in the elderly. Objectives: To …

Background: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often present with
severe acute exacerbations requiring hospital treatment. However, little is known about the …

Importance More than 70% of patients with resistant hypertension have obstructive sleep
apnea (OSA). However, there is little evidence about the effect of continuous positive airway …

… the vascular lumen) assessed by continuous Doppler flowmetry, transcranial Doppler
flowmetry, and with magnetic resonance angiographic confirmation where appropriate; body mass …

… As for risk factors, age, masculine sex and body mass index are the most important. The
prevalence of SAHS increases with age, tripling in senior patients when compared with …