Aerobic exercise also burns calories, helps with endurance, heart health, lung capacity, and strength.
His lung capacity is 33% and he is fed food through a tube at night.
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One key difference is the size and lung capacity of donors and patients among these age ranges.
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One of the major attributes needed for a successful Tour de France cyclist is a fantastic lung capacity.
The results so far suggest smog can permanently decrease a child's lung capacity by 3 percent to 5 percent.
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Indurain's lung capacity was eight litres, compared to an average of six litres.
Results from lab tests and limited human trials show that these drugs can improve lung capacity by 10% or cut collagen production by 70%.
Kenyans and East Africans in general tend to be short and slender with large natural lung capacity and a preponderance of slow twitch muscles.
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How much stems from genetic factors things like lung capacity, oxygen transport and the rate at which oxygen is used in the muscle cells is still a subject of scholarly debate.
In a 2003 study, Kelly and her collaborators found that men and women with diets high in vitamins C and E had greater lung capacity and produced less phlegm, respectively.
The 330-patient study InterMune just unveiled was designed to find out if IPF sufferers who took Actimmune saw their lung capacity decrease less than those who did not take the drug.
Living with one lung, (with reduced lung capacity), the new Pope could be at risk for developing more serious types of pneumonia as well as more complications from the pneumonia itself.
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"His lung capacity is diminished, logically, but this hasn't affected him at all or kept him from carrying forward all of his activities, " said Federico Wals, spokesman for the Buenos Aires diocese where the new pontiff previously presided as archbishop.
Meanwhile, as Pfizer had to conduct long safety studies to deal with the lung capacity issue, insulin shots got less painful as companies like Becton, Dickinson developed less painful needles and drug firms started to market insulin in easy-to-use pre-packaged "pen" devices.
"The other lung can gain capacity but there will be limits, " he said, comparing it to a car engine that now runs slightly slower.
Northwick Park Hospital and Clinical Research Centre, Harrow, cut its backlog of routine CT scans from 18 weeks to zero for lung cancer patients, by ensuring the scanner was used to full capacity.
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