Department of Thoracic Surgery, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham B9 5SS, UK Mr D A Waller, Glenfield Hospital, Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK. BACKGROUND A study was undertaken to compare ...

Despite recent initiatives, the UK is failing adequately to address the inequities in healthcare provision for children with rare lung disease Money drives research—whether it is for profit by drug ...

Introduction The EZPAP is a positive pressure hand held device that amplifies an input flow of either air or oxygen approximately four times and so positive pressure is maintained throughout the ...

A review of the management of COPD is presented, with particular emphasis on the effect on the approach to management of new information which has become available in the 5 years since the BTS ...

Background: A possible association between asthma and cardiovascular disease has been described in several exploratory studies. Methods: The association of self-reported, doctor diagnosed asthma and ...

Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK Dr Sophie D West, Sleep Unit, Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Oxford OX3 ...

1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, UK 2 Department of Clinical Oncology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, Leeds, UK 3 Department of Clinical Oncology Calderdale and ...

Introduction We delivered a one-year weight management programme (Counterweight Plus, CWP) in participants with difficult-to-treat asthma and obesity in a single-centre randomised controlled trial ...

Background NIVO score has been demonstrated to be a good predictor of NIV outcome for Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure (AHRF) due to COPD. Objectives To assess the impact of NIVO score and other ...

1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK 2 Department of Anaesthetics, Glenfield Hospital, University Hospitals Leicester NHS ...

Background PDE4 inhibitors are known to elicit a broad spectrum of anti-inflammatory effects in virtually all cells of the immune system involved in respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive ...

Background Tobacco smoking is a leading behavioural risk factor for death in the UK, contributing to deaths from cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases and common infectious diseases. 1 ...