Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers assessed high-flow nasal therapy in two sequences. The changes in dyspnea and respiratory drive with ...

During the past century our understanding of the sensation of breathlessness has evolved from a simple model of respiratory center stimulation (neurochemical model), to the recognition that receptors ...

Dyspnea, or shortness of breath, that occurs during exertion has several possible causes. The sensation is not typically a cause for concern, but a person should seek medical help in certain cases.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by an incompletely reversible limitation in airflow. A physiological variable — the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV 1) — is ...

A series of portable respiratory function tests for patients with mild to moderate myasthenia gravis (MG) were found to be useful methods to diagnose previously unidentified at-risk cases for ...

When you have shortness of breath, you can't catch your breath or get enough air in your lungs. Your doctor might call it dyspnea. It can be a warning sign of a health problem that needs treatment ...

A weakened diaphragm could be related to the persistent shortness of breath some people experience long after COVID-19 hospitalization, a small study suggested. Whether patients had received ...

Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea (PND) are episodes of shortness of breath that occur during sleep. They can happen any time of day or night and may be a sign of an underlying medical condition.