Introduction Integrating smoking cessation supports into lung cancer screening can improve abstinence rates. However, ...

Background Exacerbations are major causes of morbidity in individuals with chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic ...

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 ...

Objective Anxiety affects up to one-third of adults with asthma and is linked to poorer disease outcomes and reduced quality ...

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.) ...

3 Pulmonary Division, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Correspondence to Professor Samy Suissa, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote ...

Obesity is a major problem from a public health perspective and a difficult practical matter for intensivists. The obesity pandemic has required treating clinicians to develop an appreciation of the ...

1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, King's College London, London, UK 2 Department of Community Health Sciences, St George's, University of London, London, UK 3 Queen Mary ...

Correspondence to Professor Ian Hall, Division of Therapeutics, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK; ian.hall{at}nottingham.ac.uk In July 2021, the UK Office of Life Sciences (OLS)1 ...

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).

BACKGROUND Sputum induction is an important non-invasive technique for measuring airway inflammation in asthma. Cell numbers are often too low for flow cytometric analysis. Laser scanning cytometry ...

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