Background Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a prevalent sleep disorder strongly associated with metabolic syndrome. Visceral adiposity is the principal culprit of the metabolic syndrome leading to ...
Objective Severe early-onset-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (SEO-COPD) represents the most severe form of COPD that manifests at an earlier age than common COPD. We hypothesise that this is ...
Introduction Physical exercise has been used to assist smoking cessation, but supervised programmes are bounded by limited ...
Introduction Identifying acute hypercapnic respiratory failure is crucial in the initial management of acute exacerbations of COPD. Guidelines recommend obtaining arterial blood samples but these are ...
Objective To determine the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound in suspected pulmonary embolism. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL and ...
3 The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University Hospital South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK 4 University Hospital of South Manchester, ...
The epidemiology of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is reviewed with particular reference to the definition, frequency, time course, natural history and seasonality, and ...
Unit of Critical Care, NHLI Division, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London SW3 6NP, UK Correspondence to: Professor T W Evans, Unit of Critcal Care, NHLI ...
2 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 3 Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...
Background Current quantitative chest CT techniques improve chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) phenotyping but do not capture spatial variability and potentially reversible disease in local ...
1 Lung and Asthma Information Agency, Division of Community Health Sciences, St George’s, University of London, UK 2 Division of Community Health Sciences: GP Section, University of Edinburgh, UK 3 ...
3 Department of Respiratory Medicine & Allergology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden 4 Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden 5 ...