Background Muscle wasting and weakness (sarcopenia) are commonly associated with COPD causing frailty and reduced quality of ...

Institute for Lung Health, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK Correspondence to: Dr S S Birring Institute for Lung Health, Department of Respiratory Medicine, ...

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BACKGROUND--Serial peak expiratory flow rate (PEF) recording has been advocated as a sensitive and specific means of confirming work related asthma. The optimum ...

Introduction Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is an effective treatment for acute type 2 respiratory failure, often avoiding intubation and improving mortality. However many patients struggle to ...

A 64-year-old male retired firefighter and never-smoker presented to the ventilation team with a 6-month history of ...

Background: There are few data in asthma relating airway physiology, inflammation and remodelling and the relative effects of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) treatment on these parameters. A study of the ...

We present the case of a 45-year-old man who reported 2 years of cough and expectoration and 1 year of dyspnoea. He had a ...

Otago and Canterbury Respiratory Research Groups, Dunedin and Christchurch Schools of Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand Dr D R Taylor, Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of ...

Dr P A Lewis, School of Postgraduate Medicine, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. BACKGROUND The UK has published observed cohort survival figures for subjects with cystic fibrosis born since 1968.

Objective Asthma and type 2 diabetes are two important causes of morbidity globally. We examined both the association of type 2 diabetes with asthma in Swedish adults and the familial co-aggregation ...