Matteo Sofia

TL;DR: The data provide important insights into baseline characteristics, diagnostic and management changes as well as outcome data in European IPF patients over time.

TL;DR: Considering these aspects governments worldwide and international organizations such as the World Health Organization and the European Union are facing a growing problem of the respiratory effects induced by gaseous and particulate pollutants arising from motor vehicle emissions.

TL;DR: The nuclear magnetic resonance metabonomic approach could identify the metabolic fingerprint of exhaled breath condensate in different clinical sets of data and can discriminate potential perturbations induced by pre-analytical variables.

TL;DR: Consistent weight loss in severely obese patients with asthma is associated to improvement in respiratory symptoms and lung function, however, the mechanisms underlying the effect of large body mass changes on asthma would require further studies.

TL;DR: The recent improvements in nasal NO measurements are discussed, which may be useful to better characterize the involvement of the NO produced by nose and paranasal sinuses in upper airways inflammatory diseases such as allergic rhinitis, nasal polyposis, sinusitis, primary ciliary dyskinesia, and cystic fibrosis.