Objective To assess the impact of acute hypoxia-induced periodic breathing on respiratory efficiency in young healthy males.

Background A regional trial indicated that implementing at-risk asthma registers in primary care could reduce hospital ...

Background Sex-based differences in immune response are well established, but whether men and women derive comparable benefit ...

Background Preterm birth is associated with lifelong respiratory sequelae, yet our understanding of lung function ...

Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes, typically 8 weeks or longer in duration, deliver patient-tailored therapies including but not limited to exercise training, education and behaviour change to ...

Chronic cough or cough that lasts more than 8 weeks, once a chest x-ray and spirometry are confirmed normal, is caused by an alteration in a section of the route between peripheral receptors, mainly ...

3 The Academic Division of Thoracic Surgery, The Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK 4 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool, UK 5 Respiratory Medicine Unit, ...

2024 BTS/NICE/SIGN asthma guidelines have the potential to improve UK asthma outcomes, but we must act now ...

Correspondence to Dr Luke S G E Howard, National Pulmonary Hypertension Service, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, W12 0HS, UK; l.howard{at}imperial.ac.uk ...

5 Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia 6 The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of ...

Introduction The PiSZ genotype results in less severe deficiency of alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) than PiZZ. Less is known about phenotypic and prognostic features. Methods We studied 699 PiZZ, 126 PiSZ ...

Background Despite progress in TB control in low-burden countries like England and Wales, there are still diagnostic delays. Molecular testing and/or whole-genome sequencing (WGS) provide more rapid ...