Introduction Efficient preventive management of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is ...
Methods We conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis in the Yorkshire Lung Screening Trial (YLST) population comparing three ...
Background The prompt and precise diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is crucial for controlling this disease and ...
Airway-occluding mucus plugs (MPs)—as identified on CT scans—are frequent in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...
Introduction People diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) after death (postmortem) experience the ultimate diagnostic delay. We ...
Reduction of the risk of asthma attacks is a major goal of current asthma management. We propose to derive a risk scale predicting asthma attacks based on the blood eosinophil count and exhaled nitric ...
Rationale: Dyspnoea is a debilitating and distressing symptom that is reflected in different verbal descriptors. Evidence suggests that dyspnoea, like pain perception, consists of sensory quality and ...
Correspondence to Lea J Jabbarian, Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Medical Centre, 3000 CA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; l.jabbarian{at}erasmusmc.nl Background Advance care planning ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented surge in hospitalised patients with viral pneumonia. The most severely affected patients are older men, individuals of black and Asian minority ...
2 GRIAC Research Institute, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to Loes E M Kistemaker, Department of Molecular Pharmacology, ...
2 Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to F M Struik, Department of ...
a Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK, b Department of Sports Science, Loughborough University of Technology, UK Dr S M Revill. BACKGROUND The purpose of this ...