Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is present in >10% of all people admitted to critical care and is associated with severe morbidity and mortality. Despite more than half a century since its ...

Background Many patients with the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSA) travel to the mountains for recreational and professional activities while temporarily discontinuing continuous positive ...

2 Center for Sleep and Vigilance Disorders, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Dementia constitutes a pressing healthcare challenge. It has been estimated that by 2050, ...

Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...

Background The aetiology of acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) is incompletely understood. Understanding the relationship between chronic bacterial airway infection and viral exposure may explain ...

aRespiratory Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK, bCancer and Blood Programme, The Hospital for ...

1 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia 2 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Lidcombe, New South Wales, ...

1 Department of General Practice, Division of Public Health, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Centre, ...

Objective We assessed associations between physical activity and lung function, and its decline, in the prospective population-based European Community Respiratory Health Survey cohort.

Chronic airways diseases, including asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis, cause significant morbidity and mortality and are associated with high healthcare expenditure, in the UK and worldwide. For ...

Background Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) is the most common indication for home ventilation, although the optimal therapy remains unclear, particularly for severe disease. We compared ...