Introduction Integrating smoking cessation supports into lung cancer screening can improve abstinence rates. However, ...

Background The relationship of social determinants of health (SDOH), environmental exposures and medical history to lung function trajectories is underexplored. A better understanding of these ...

Objective Anxiety affects up to one-third of adults with asthma and is linked to poorer disease outcomes and reduced quality ...

Background: The association between gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation has so far remained unclear. Objective: To prospectively ...

Obesity is a major problem from a public health perspective and a difficult practical matter for intensivists. The obesity pandemic has required treating clinicians to develop an appreciation of the ...

3 Pulmonary Division, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Correspondence to Professor Samy Suissa, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote ...

Correspondence to Robert A Stockley, Lung Investigation Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK; rob.stockley{at}uhb.nhs.uk Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is ...

Objective NEWS2 (RCP 2017) 1 recommends use of ‘SpO2 Scale 2’ in patients with hypercapnic respiratory failure (usually due to COPD) to aim target saturations of 88–92%. We aimed to identify if COPD ...

1 Centre for Asthma and Respiratory Diseases, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia 2 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia Professor P ...

1 School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong Background Climate change increases global mean temperature ...

Background Lung cancer resection rates are low in England, but reports have indicated an increase in recent years. We analysed the recent trends in surgical resection by age, sex, socioeconomic ...

BACKGROUND The guidelines on control and prevention of tuberculosis in the United Kingdom have been reviewed and updated. METHODS A subcommittee was appointed by the Joint Tuberculosis Committee (JTC) ...