Background Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a prevalent sleep disorder strongly associated with metabolic syndrome. Visceral ...

Introduction Physical exercise has been used to assist smoking cessation, but supervised programmes are bounded by limited ...

Objective Severe early-onset-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (SEO-COPD) represents the most severe form of COPD that ...

6 Imperial College NHS Trust and NHLI, Imperial College, London, UK Background Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) improves exercise capacity and health status in patients with COPD, but many patients ...

1 School of Public Health, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia 2 School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia Background The risk of malignant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Department of Child Health, Queen’s University of Belfast, Clinical Institute, Belfast, UK All children experience head colds and many consult their doctor because of associated coughing.1 Cough with ...

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 ...

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 ...