TY - JOUR
T1 - Promotion of lung health
T2 - NHLBI workshop on the primary prevention of chronic lung diseases
AU - Camargo, Carlos A.
AU - Budinger, G. R.Scott
AU - Escobar, Gabriel J.
AU - Hansel, Nadia N.
AU - Hanson, Corrine K.
AU - Huffnagle, Gary B.
AU - Buist, A. Sonia
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - Lung-related research primarily focuses on the etiology and management of diseases. In recent years, interest in primary prevention has grown. However, primary prevention also includes "health promotion" (actions in a population that keep an individual healthy). We encourage more research on population-based (public health) strategies that could not only maximize lung health but also mitigate "normal" age-related declines - not only for spirometry but across multiple measures of lung health. In developing a successful strategy, a "life course" approach is important. Unfortunately, we are unable to achieve the full benefit of this approach until we have better measures of lung health and an improved understanding of the normal trajectory, both over an individual's life span and possibly across generations. We discuss key questions in lung health promotion, with an emphasis on the upper (healthier) end of the distribution of lung functioning and resiliency and briefly summarize the few interventions that have been studied to date. We conclude with suggestions regarding the most promising future research for this important, but largely neglected, area of lung research.
AB - Lung-related research primarily focuses on the etiology and management of diseases. In recent years, interest in primary prevention has grown. However, primary prevention also includes "health promotion" (actions in a population that keep an individual healthy). We encourage more research on population-based (public health) strategies that could not only maximize lung health but also mitigate "normal" age-related declines - not only for spirometry but across multiple measures of lung health. In developing a successful strategy, a "life course" approach is important. Unfortunately, we are unable to achieve the full benefit of this approach until we have better measures of lung health and an improved understanding of the normal trajectory, both over an individual's life span and possibly across generations. We discuss key questions in lung health promotion, with an emphasis on the upper (healthier) end of the distribution of lung functioning and resiliency and briefly summarize the few interventions that have been studied to date. We conclude with suggestions regarding the most promising future research for this important, but largely neglected, area of lung research.
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U2 - 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201312-451LD
DO - 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201312-451LD
M3 - Article
C2 - 24754821
AN - SCOPUS:84899057803
SN - 2325-6621
VL - 11
SP - S125-S138
JO - Annals of the American Thoracic Society
JF - Annals of the American Thoracic Society
IS - SUPPL. 3
ER -