Objective Systemic corticosteroids for 5–7 days are standard care for asthma exacerbations, but the optimal duration and ...
Background While maternal depression and anxiety have been linked to adverse childhood respiratory outcomes, the role of ...
Breathlessness intervention services (BIS), which coach patients to self-manage breathlessness using non-pharmacological ...
Background Current guidelines for the evaluation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) do not recommend screening ...
Background Previous studies have shown that the incidence of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is rising in the UK and USA. Death registrations and primary care data were used to determine the ...
3 Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Correspondence to Dr Mei-Shu Lai, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public ...
Background Despite exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) being both common and often fatal, accurate prognostication of patients hospitalised with an exacerbation is difficult.
Objective Little is known about how lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) before chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are associated with future exacerbations and mortality. We ...
Correspondence to Dr Hisatoshi Sugiura, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Seiryou-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan; ...
Background Oscillatory positive expiratory pressure (OPEP) devices are intended to facilitate sputum clearance and reduce cough, but there is limited evidence for their effectiveness in COPD, or to ...
Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK Elizabeth Holloway, Research Physiotherapist, Department of Epidemiology and Public ...
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