A key outcome from lung cancer screening studies is the concept of ‘stage-shift’ seen in screen-detected cancers compared ...
Background Lung cancer screening is effective for people at higher risk of the disease, but there is no international ...
Background Asthma is an umbrella diagnosis encompassing distinct pathophysiological mechanisms. While a global problem, our ...
Background Quadriceps maximal voluntary contraction (QMVC) reliably measures quadriceps muscle force and predicts mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the minimal ...
Background Antifibrotic (AF) therapy has been shown to potentially reduce the risk of lung cancer (LC) in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Our study further assesses the impact of AF ...
4 The Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Background Pulmonary rehabilitation is a cornerstone of care for COPD but uptake of traditional ...
Correspondence to Dr Insa Korten, Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Inselspital and University of Bern, Freiburgstrasse 31, Bern 3010, Switzerland; Insa.Korten{at}insel.ch ...
Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an often-progressive respiratory disease associated with disabling breathlessness. Breathlessness intervention services (BIS), which coach ...
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK Background: The incidence of empyema in children is increasing worldwide. While there are emerging ...
Sex differences in outcome after endoscopic lung volume reduction (ELVR) in patients with emphysema: a retrospective analysis of the German Lung Emphysema Registry (LER e.V.) ...
Background Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). The extent to which the excess CVD risk is captured by risk factors in ...
Data on asthma treatment outcomes in Africa are limited. 449 patients with asthma (age 5–93 years) in Uganda were followed up for 2 years to determine rates of exacerbations and mortality and ...
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