Background The diagnosis and management of pneumonia is often challenging due to its overlapping clinical presentations with ...

Background Minimising hypoxaemia during submaximal walking tests has a positive effect on exercise capacity and dyspnoea in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on long-term ...

Seven patients exposed to the inhalation of synthetic fibres presented with various bronchopulmonary diseases, such as asthma, extrinsic allergic alveolitis, chronic bronchitis with bronchiectasis, ...

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Correspondence to Professor David B Price, Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK; dprice{at}opri.sg Background Little is known about the impact of exacerbations on COPD ...

In the nineteenth century, it was recognised that acute attacks of chronic bronchitis were harmful. 140 years later, it is clearer than ever that exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Correspondence to Professor Michael J Abramson, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3004, Australia; michael.abramson{at}monash.edu Introduction ...

Background Relapse continues to place significant burden on patients and tuberculosis (TB) programmes worldwide. We aimed to determine clinical and microbiological factors associated with relapse in ...

Background Social media may influence children and young people’s health behaviour, including cigarette and e-cigarette use. Methods We analysed data from participants aged 10–25 years in the UK ...

Asthma attacks (exacerbations) are common, accounting for over 90 000 UK hospital admissions per annum. They kill nearly 1500 people per year in the UK, have significant associated direct and indirect ...

1 University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pneumology, Allergology and Sleep Medicine, D-44789 Bochum, Germany 2 Ruhr-University Bochum, Experimental Pneumology, ...