A new research involving patient of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) found that tiotropium therapy (a drug that stops the nerve reaction that blocks the breathing route) can improve the lung function and thus improving the quality of life for its patients.
A study called UPLIFT (Understanding Potential Long-term Impacts on Function with Tiotropium) has been carried out involving 5,993 patients in 37 countries around the world.
COPD usually happens because of the commitment to smoking habit for too long. It is marked by symptoms such as frequent coughing, increase of slime or sputum, frequent suffocation especially if exercising, tight chest feeling and often having respiratory infections.
COPD cannot be cured but can be prevented by quitting smoking or not smoking at all. Today’s available treatments of COPD are meant for controlling and preventing worse lung damages only.
Exhaust Smoke Increase Pressure to Human Brain
Toxicology research in University Zuyd, Dutch has discovered that short exposure to vehicle exhaust smoke is enough to increase the pressure to the human brain.
The research output has shown that fine particles (nanoparticles) in exhaust smoke which were being inhaled will cause changes to the brain activity.
The study was carried out by monitoring the brain activity of two groups of volunteers exposed to either clean air or exhaust smoke for an hour using electroencephalograph (EEG) equipment.
Diseases which ‘attacks’ human are infectious diseases or outbreaks such as tuberculosis, malaria or HIV while the diseases which come from human himself are like diabetes, heart diseases, cancer and stroke.
However, from all type of diseases that stems or produced by human, there are several serious illnesses which are classified as ‘chronic’ because they have caused almost double the total death worldwide over other causes of death. Disease group which is known as ‘chronic non-communicable diseases’ (CNCD) have triggered concerns among scientists and physicians to make various effort and research to overcome its spread.
