Introduction Integrating smoking cessation supports into lung cancer screening can improve abstinence rates. However, healthcare decision-makers need evidence of cost-effectiveness to understand the ...

Background The relationship of social determinants of health (SDOH), environmental exposures and medical history to lung function trajectories is underexplored. A better understanding of these ...

The treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been guided for decades by robust clinical practice guidelines (CPGs), such as NICE1 and GesEPOC,2 as well as international ...

The rationale for subphenotyping acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) arises from its marked biological and clinical ...

Objective Anxiety affects up to one-third of adults with asthma and is linked to poorer disease outcomes and reduced quality of life. This study evaluated the efficacy of therapist-guided, ...

Background The increasing number of patients treated by long-term non-invasive ventilation (NIV) challenges the capacity of ...

Churg-Strauss syndrome is a rare form of eosinophilic vasculitis associated with asthma. There have been several recent case reports of the condition in association with leukotriene antagonists and it ...

Objectives In patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), severe exacerbations (ECOPDs) impose significant morbidity and mortality. Current guidelines emphasise using ECOPD history to ...

Expiratory airflow was measured by spirometry at ages 8 years, 18 years and 25 years in 297 survivors born extremely preterm (EP; <28 weeks’ gestation) or extremely low birth weight (ELBW; <1000 g) ...

1 School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong Background Climate change increases global mean temperature ...

Phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) MRI provides unique insight into response to bilobectomy in a child with primary ciliary dyskinesia ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 2 Department of Biochemistry, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Correspondence to: Dr A ...