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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Background Compared with cytotoxic chemotherapy, the efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) for patients ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
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 ...
Targeted lung cancer screening saves lives by shifting diagnosis to earlier stages, when curative treatment is more likely to succeed. To improve the efficiency of screening and minimise associated ...