Background Many studies show a link between forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV 1) and survival in the general population and this has been interpreted as a link between airway obstruction and ...

Background The aim of this study was to estimate the long-term (cost-) effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods A ...

Rationale Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is an effective, key standard treatment for people with COPD. Nevertheless, low participant uptake, insufficient attendance and high drop-out rates are reported ...

a Inflammation Research Unit, School of Pathology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2052, b Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, John Curtin School of Medical Research, ...

Background Prior work suggests different interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) that share the radiological usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) pattern have an overall worse prognosis. However, ...

Purpose With improving short-term mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), understanding survivors’ posthospitalisation outcomes is increasingly important. However, little is known ...

In the nineteenth century, it was recognised that acute attacks of chronic bronchitis were harmful. 140 years later, it is clearer than ever that exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Correspondence to Prof Rosalind Smyth, Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health, UCL, London EH16 4TJ, UK; rosalind.smyth{at}ucl.ac.uk Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common single ...

2 University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Corry-Anke Brandsma, Department of ...

Background Little is known about the association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in people with established CVD. Knowing if COPD is associated ...

Introduction Spontaneous pneumothorax (SP) is broken down into primary (PSP: no known underlying lung disease), secondary (SSP: known lung disease) and from trauma or iatrogenic pneumothorax (IP).

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