Airways dysanapsis, a mismatch between airway calibre and lung volume, has long been observed as a physiological variant first described in healthy individuals by Green and Mead in the 1970s.1 While ...

Background Mobile health (mHealth) is a novel model of care that may overcome barriers to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) ...

1 School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong Background Climate change increases global mean temperature ...

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For decades, most critical care patients have survived hospitalisation, supporting increased attention on the long-term ...

Background: Quadriceps weakness and loss of muscle mass predict mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It was hypothesised that a reduced quadriceps cross-sectional area could be ...

2 Department of Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Coventry University, School of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry, UK 3 Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, ...

Basement membrane repair response biomarker PRO-C4 predicts progression in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: analysis of the PFBIO and PROFILE cohorts ...

Rationale/Objectives Despite plausible pathophysiological mechanisms, research is needed to confirm the relationship between sleep, circadian rhythm and delirium in patients admitted to the intensive ...

Background: Skeletal muscle wasting and dysfunction are strong independent predictors of mortality in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Creatine nutritional supplementation ...

Background We performed an analysis of UK respiratory disease epidemiology covering 2004–2012. Findings pertaining to COPD are presented here. Methods Prevalence and incidence rates were estimated ...

Academic Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew's and Royal London Schools of Medicine and Dentistry and London Chest Hospital, London, UK Dr J A Wedzicha, Academic Respiratory Medicine, Dominion House, ...