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Development and validation of the Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis South Asian Questionnaire for Exposure (HP-SAQE): a novel, qualitative and quantitative tool

Introduction There is an unmet need for a validated qualitative and quantitative tool to assess environmental exposures in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). This study aimed to develop ...
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Gestational and postnatal age define airway epithelial maturation and RSV responses during the first year of life: results of an ex-vivo/in-vitro Airway Epithelial Cell Study

Introduction Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of severe lower respiratory tract infection in infants globally. Newborns, especially those born prematurely, are at increased risk ...
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Association of time spent on social media with youth cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use in the UK: a national longitudinal study

Background Social media may influence children and young people’s health behaviour, including cigarette and e-cigarette use. Methods We analysed data from participants aged 10–25 years in the UK ...
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Management of pleural infection in adults: British Thoracic Society pleural disease guideline 2010 (9 August, 2010) ...
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Predicting survival in malignant pleural effusion: development and validation of the LENT prognostic score

Background Malignant pleural effusion (MPE) causes debilitating breathlessness and predicting survival is challenging. This study aimed to obtain contemporary data on survival by underlying tumour ...
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Seasonal temperature variability and emergency hospital admissions for respiratory diseases: a population-based cohort study

1 School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong Background Climate change increases global mean temperature ...
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Vitamin D to prevent exacerbations of COPD: systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data from randomised controlled trials

5 Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Adrian R Martineau, The Centre for Primary Care and Public Health, ...
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Reference values for oxygen saturation from sea level to the highest human habitation in the Andes in acclimatised persons

17 Center for international Child Health, University of Melbourne, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia Data were collected from 15 locations at different altitudes from sea level to the ...
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Bagpipe lung; a new type of interstitial lung disease?

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Estimating individual treatment effects on COPD exacerbations by causal machine learning on randomised controlled trials

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 ...
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Comparison of spirometric thresholds in diagnosing smoking-related airflow obstruction

Background Diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is based on detection of airflow obstruction on spirometry. There is no consensus regarding using a fixed threshold to define airflow ...
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S32 Epidemiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the uk: findings from the british lung foundation’s ‘respiratory health of the nation’ project

Background We performed an analysis of UK respiratory disease epidemiology covering 2004–2012. Findings pertaining to COPD are presented here. Methods Prevalence and incidence rates were estimated ...