Objective We assessed associations between physical activity and lung function, and its decline, in the prospective population-based European Community Respiratory Health Survey cohort.

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Background The natural history and time course of the onset of exacerbation events of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is incompletely understood. Methods A prospective cohort of 212 ...

4 Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine (CEMM), Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rationale We hypothesised that patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) can ...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes improve the health of patients disabled by lung disease but their cost effectiveness is unproved. We undertook a cost/utility analysis in conjunction ...

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 ...

Background: A study was undertaken to validate the modified American Thoracic Society (ATS) rule and two British Thoracic Society (BTS) rules for the prediction of ICU admission and mortality of ...

1 National Heart & Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College London, UK 2 National Heart & Lung Institute, Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College London, UK Correspondence to Dr ...

1 Respiratory Muscle Laboratory, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, King’s College Hospital, London, UK Background: Although quadriceps weakness is well recognised in chronic obstructive ...

Aims Unexplained chronic cough is a common condition with no satisfactory treatments. Previous work has suggested that cough may be linked to neutrophilic airway inflammation. This study tested the ...