Introduction Lung-function outcomes among preterm-born children referred for pulmonology care are highly heterogeneous, and ...

Introduction The Improving Adult respiratory Care Together (ImpACT+) project is a collaboratively designed, commissioned integrated respiratory service in South Derbyshire which was fully implemented ...

Background Persistence of myofibroblasts is believed to contribute to the development of fibrosis in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Transforming growth factor β1 (TGFβ1) irreversibly converts ...

2 Centre Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Objective To investigate the effectiveness of a 6-week exercise ...

Correspondence to Dr Brendan T Heiden, Department of Surgery, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA 63110; bheiden{at}wustl.edu Background The utility of ...

2 University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD, Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Corry-Anke Brandsma, Department of ...

1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 2 School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia ...

1 National Evidence-based Healthcare Collaborating Agency, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Lung Institute, Seoul ...

Background and aim Occupational exposures are important, preventable causes of COPD. We previously found an increased risk of COPD among six occupations by analysing lifetime job histories and lung ...

Correspondence to Professor Matthijs Oudkerk, CMI-Center for Medical Imaging, Universitary Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen 9700 RB, The Netherlands; m.oudkerk{at}umcg.nl ...

Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK Elizabeth Holloway, Research Physiotherapist, Department of Epidemiology and Public ...

2 Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia 3 School of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia Rationale ...