Background Exacerbations of respiratory conditions including asthma are amongst the most common causes of emergency hospital attendances, but numerous pulmonary and extra-pulmonary comorbidities can ...

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 ...

Introduction and objectives BTS Community Acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines require a chest radiograph (CXR) 6 weeks after discharge in high risk patients. This is the hospital team’s responsibility ...

Small Area Health Statistics Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK Background: Recent studies have indicated long-term effects on ...

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 ...

Correspondence to: Professor N C Thomson, University of Glasgow, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 6NT, UK; n.c.thomson{at}clinmed.gla.ac.uk Background: In some ...

Background The aetiology of lung cancer among individuals who never smoked remains elusive, despite 15% of lung cancer cases in men and 53% in women worldwide being unrelated to smoking. Epigenetic ...

3 National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Jennifer K Quint, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College ...

The National Aspergillosis Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Chris Kosmidis, ...

Respiratory Unit, Western General Hospital and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to: Dr J McCafferty Respiratory Unit, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH2 4XU, UK; ...

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 ...

5 Frederick Meijer Heart & Vascular Institute, Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA Correspondence to Dr Alastair Proudfoot, Frederick Meijer Heart & Vascular Institute, Spectrum Health, 100 ...