Background The diagnosis and management of pneumonia is often challenging due to its overlapping clinical presentations with other respiratory illnesses, low pathogen identification rates, and slow ...

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, ...

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 ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Medicine and Intensive Care, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to: Dr ...

We used data from 11 577 children in the UK Millennium Cohort Study, collected at approximately 14 years of age (early teens), to assess characteristics associated with smoking, and generated regional ...

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

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 ...

5 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Southend University Hospital, Southend, UK Correspondence to B R O'Driscoll, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Salford Royal University Hospital, Salford M6 8HD ...

UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Background A recent ...

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 Advanced Preventive Medicine for Infectious Disease, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan 2 Department of Anaesthesiology, Tohoku University Hospital, Sendai, ...

In 2019, we published the top 10 research priorities for pulmonary fibrosis (PF) as identified by people living with PF, carers and healthcare professionals. Five years on, we report on the updated ...