Objective To determine the prevalence, risk factors and natural history of hiatal hernia (HH)
on CT in the general population. Materials and methods The Multi-Ethnic Study of …

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PAGE 1 Title: Computed tomography-assessed dysanapsis and airflow obstruction in early …

Purpose To develop an end-to-end deep learning (DL) framework to segment ventilation
defects on pulmonary hyperpolarized MRI. Materials and methods The Multi-Ethnic Study of …

Background: The pulmonary vasculature is essential for gas exchange and impacts both
pulmonary and cardiac function. However, it is difficult to assess and its characteristics in the …

BACKGROUND Lack of initiation or escalation of blood pressure (BP) lowering medication
when BP is uncontrolled, termed therapeutic inertia (TI), increases with age and may be …

Background The prevalence of abdominal aortic aneurysm is high in chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) population. Emphysema involves proteolytic destruction of …

Background Hiatus hernia (HH) is prevalent in adults with pulmonary fibrosis. We
hypothesised that HH would be associated with markers of lung inflammation and fibrosis …

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and emphysema are characterized by
functional and structural damage which increases the spaces for gaseous diffusion and …

The morphology of the proximal human airway tree is highly variable in the general
population, and known variants in airway branching patterns are associated with increased …

We thank other authors for pointing out additional factors that may contribute to increasing
ascending aorta diameter including aortic valve disease and changes in the aorta-heart …