Correspondence to Professor Wim Janssens, Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases and Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE), KU Leuven, Leuven 3000, Belgium; wim.janssens{at}uzleuven.be Rationale Estimating the ...

Over the last decade, technological advances have revolutionised efforts to understand the role played by microbes in airways disease. With the application of ever more sophisticated techniques, the ...

2 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 3 Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...

MRC and Asthma-UK Centre for Allergic Mechanisms in Asthma, King's College London, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Catherine M Hawrylowicz, Department of Asthma, Allergy and Respiratory Science, 5th ...

Correspondence to Dr Huan-Zhong Shi, Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University, 8 Gongti Nanlu, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100020, ...

A pillar of the WHO End TB Strategy is targeted latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) testing to identify persons who would benefit from TB preventive treatment (TPT).1 The WHO recommends the ...

1 Cancer Research Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK 2 Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of ...

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 ...

4 General Practice and Primary Care Research Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Correspondence to Dr Stephen Barclay ...

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Purpose To determine high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) patterns and pulmonary function indices which are associated with increased mortality in patients with connective tissue disease related ...