Introduction and objectives Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has been shown to reduce in-patient mortality in AECOPD from 20 to 10%. In 2011 national data revealed that there were multifactorial ...

3 Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, Tel Aviv University School of Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel Correspondence to Professor Eitan Kerem, ...

1 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia 2 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Lidcombe, New South Wales, ...

The National Aspergillosis Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Chris Kosmidis, ...

Background The natural history and time course of the onset of exacerbation events of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is incompletely understood. Methods A prospective cohort of 212 ...

2 Department of Pulmonology, University Hospital and University of Groningen, The Netherlands 3 Department of Pediatric Pulmonology, University Hospital and University of Groningen, The Netherlands ...

BACKGROUND A small proportion of patients with asthma account for a disproportionate number of acute health service events. To identify whether factors other than severity and low socioeconomic status ...

1 Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Centre, and the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, ...

a Academic Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London Chest Hospital, London, UK, b Division of Physiological Medicine, St George’s ...

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for the management of adults with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) published in 2009 was compared with the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care ...

Objective We assessed associations between physical activity and lung function, and its decline, in the prospective population-based European Community Respiratory Health Survey cohort.

Chronic airways diseases, including asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis, cause significant morbidity and mortality and are associated with high healthcare expenditure, in the UK and worldwide. For ...