Introduction People who smoke are a third more likely to be admitted to hospital than non-smokers. A disparity in smoking ...

Airways dysanapsis, a mismatch between airway calibre and lung volume, has long been observed as a physiological variant ...

Fibroblastic foci—the cardinal feature of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP)—are characterised by metaplastic alveolar epithelium overlying tufts of fibroblasts. UIP is further characterised by ...

Using the best available evidence and expert consensus, this document provides guidance for adverse effect monitoring in multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB). It includes recommendations for baseline tests ...

1 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA 3 University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, ...

Background Conventional measures to evaluate COPD may fail to capture systemic problems, particularly musculoskeletal weakness and cardiovascular disease. Identifying these manifestations and ...

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, ...

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 ...

1 Department of Thoracic and HIV Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Infectious Diseases, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK 3 Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, ...

Introduction Oscillating positive expiratory pressure (OPEP) devices are intended to facilitate sputum clearance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but there is uncertainty as to their ...

BACKGROUND A critical review was conducted of the quantitative literature linking indoor air pollution from household use of biomass fuels with acute respiratory infections in young children, which is ...

Correspondence to Dr Maciej L Goniewicz, Department of Health Behavior, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm & Carlton Streets/Carlton House A320, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA; maciej.goniewicz{at}roswellpark ...