Introduction Preterm-born infants are particularly vulnerable to poor air quality, which may contribute to respiratory ...

Risk assessment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) still depends heavily on a familiar clinical shortcut: a ...

Introduction Acetazolamide improves sleep apnoea in people living at low altitude and newcomers ascending to high altitude.

Background Antibiotic therapy before presentation (prior antibiotic exposure, PAE) is reported in 11–39% of patients with ...

Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterised by immune dysregulation and multiorgan fibrosis. 1 ...

A 65-year-old male, who does not smoke, with a history of right lower lobectomy for carcinoid tumour 15 years prior, was referred for persistent, unexplained cough over 12 months. This was ...

PM 2.5, O 3 and survival gains from China’s clean air actions among patients with lung cancer: a 20-year registry-based cohort study in Beijing ...

BACKGROUND--Maximal inspiratory pressure (MIP) is often relied upon as an index of inspiratory muscle strength, and reproducibility of MIP taken to indicate maximal effort. This study was designed to ...

Correspondence to Dr Sonia Wing Mei Cheng, Discipline of Physiotherapy, Sydney School of Health Sciences, Susan Wakil Health Building, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2050, Australia ...

Background Comorbidities associated with systemic inflammation including cardiovascular disease (CVD), stroke and diabetes mellitus (DM) are common among individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

1 Department of Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK 2 Department of Paediatrics, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK ...

Lung Investigation Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK Correspondence to: Professor R A Stockley Lung Investigation Unit, Nuffield House, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 ...