Patients with Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Lung Disease Exhibit Unique Body and Immune Phenotypes

Among patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease is a subset of previously healthy women with a slender body morphotype, often with scoliosis and/or pectus excavatum. We hypothesize that unidentified factors predispose these individuals to pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial disease....

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Published in:	American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine Vol. 187; no. 2; pp. 197 - 205
Main Authors:	Kartalija, Marinka, Ovrutsky, Alida R., Bryan, Courtney L., Pott, Gregory B., Fantuzzi, Giamila, Thomas, Jacob, Strand, Matthew J., Bai, Xiyuan, Ramamoorthy, Preveen, Rothman, Micol S., Nagabhushanam, Vijaya, McDermott, Michael, Levin, Adrah R., Frazer-Abel, Ashley, Giclas, Patricia C., Korner, Judith, Iseman, Michael D., Shapiro, Leland, Chan, Edward D.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY American Thoracic Society 15.01.2013
Subjects:	Adipokines - blood Adipose Tissue - physiology Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy Biological and medical sciences Body fat Body Mass Index Case-Control Studies Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Cytokines Cytokines - blood Disease Susceptibility - blood Disease Susceptibility - immunology Drug toxicity and drugs side effects treatment Female Funnel Chest - complications Gender Habitus Health care Humans Intensive care medicine Lung diseases Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - etiology Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous - immunology Pharmacology. Drug treatments Phenotype Scoliosis Scoliosis - complications Toxicity: blood Tuberculosis Tumor necrosis factor-TNF Womens health adiponectin Skin disease Intensive care Deformation Spine Diseases of the osteoarticular system Spine disease Mycobacterial infection Marfan syndrome Osteoarticular system Scoliosis Systemic disease Chest wall Resuscitation Human Connective tissue disease Lung disease Elastic tissue disease Respiratory disease Congenital disease Genetic disease Infection Phenotype Malformation Leptin Bacteriosis Pectus excavatum
ISSN:	1073-449X, 1535-4970, 1535-4970
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