11.   Another showed it reduced pulmonary hypertension and improved lung function in patients with the disease.

12.   -- Nearly all smokers experience an accelerated decline in lung function, and many eventually develop a chronic lung disease like chronic bronchitis or emphysema.

13.   Alimta improved the symptoms of many patients by reducing pain, improving lung function and easing breathing.

14.   But in patients followed as long as two years, lung function declined at the same rate it was falling before surgery.

15.   Cooper also showed that, in carefully selected patients, the operation significantly improved lung function.

16.   Each group was tested for physical fitness on physiological measures of body mass, body fat, blood pressure and lung function.

17.   Five studies of the role of fruits and vegetables in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease found an association between fruit consumption and improved lung function.

18.   In another report in the same issue of the journal, allergies to inhaled substances were linked to a decline in lung function later in life.

19.   Nearly all smokers experience an accelerated decline in lung function, and many eventually develop a chronic lung disease like chronic bronchitis or emphysema.

20.   One of the two smoking cessation groups also got inhalant bronchodilators to use daily in hopes that the medication would slow the loss of lung function.