Background Muscle wasting and weakness (sarcopenia) are commonly associated with COPD causing frailty and reduced quality of ...

A 64-year-old male retired firefighter and never-smoker presented to the ventilation team with a 6-month history of ...

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To determine whether asthma alone can cause irreversible airflow obstruction 42 men and 47 women with chronic asthma (mean duration 22 (SD 13) years) without evidence of other disease likely to cause ...

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Background: Written asthma action plans based on personal best peak expiratory flow (PEF) consistently improve health outcomes, whereas those based on predicted PEF do not. Guidelines state that ...

BACKGROUND A beneficial effect of fresh fruit consumption on lung function has been observed in several studies. The epidemiological evidence of the effect on respiratory symptoms and asthma is ...

Department of Medicine, University of Birmingham, Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands. BACKGROUND: The variability of peak expiratory flow (PEF) is now commonly used in the diagnosis ...