Background A regional trial indicated that implementing at-risk asthma registers in primary care could reduce hospital ...

Objective To assess the impact of acute hypoxia-induced periodic breathing on respiratory efficiency in young healthy males.

Background Sex-based differences in immune response are well established, but whether men and women derive comparable benefit ...

Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes, typically 8 weeks or longer in duration, deliver patient-tailored therapies including but not limited to exercise training, education and behaviour change to ...

2 Department of Medical Microbiology, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK 3 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK 4 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Southmead ...

Chronic cough or cough that lasts more than 8 weeks, once a chest x-ray and spirometry are confirmed normal, is caused by an alteration in a section of the route between peripheral receptors, mainly ...

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0564, USA Dr R P Baughman. If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...

Frailty, comorbidity and survival comparisons between populations eligible for screening according to risk factor versus risk score criteria: results from the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial ...

Correspondence to Dr Luke S G E Howard, National Pulmonary Hypertension Service, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, W12 0HS, UK; l.howard{at}imperial.ac.uk ...

5 Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia 6 The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of ...

Introduction The PiSZ genotype results in less severe deficiency of alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) than PiZZ. Less is known about phenotypic and prognostic features. Methods We studied 699 PiZZ, 126 PiSZ ...

Background Despite progress in TB control in low-burden countries like England and Wales, there are still diagnostic delays. Molecular testing and/or whole-genome sequencing (WGS) provide more rapid ...