title: Clinical and functional outcomes in Middle Eastern patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. esamalhamad@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Esam H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Alhamad
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Masood
authors.forename: Shaffi Ahmad
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Shaik
authors.forename: Maha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arafah
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D002423:Cause of Death; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D018450:Disease Progression; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D054990:Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008877:Middle East; D010102:Oxygen Inhalation Therapy; D011336:Probability; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014109:Total Lung Capacity