Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is present in >10% of all people admitted to critical care and is associated with severe morbidity and mortality. Despite more than half a century since its ...

Academic Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew's and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London EC1A 7BE, UK BACKGROUND Although it is presumed that exacerbations ...

2 Center for Sleep and Vigilance Disorders, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Dementia constitutes a pressing healthcare challenge. It has been estimated that by 2050, ...

Objective Reduced functional capacity and muscle weakness are two major contributors to functional impairment in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The underlying causes of functional ...

Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...

a Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sleep Laboratory and PRETA Laboratory, CHRU, Grenoble, France, b Respiratory Department, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK Professor PA Levy, EFCR, Pneumologie ...

Background Many patients with the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSA) travel to the mountains for recreational and professional activities while temporarily discontinuing continuous positive ...

Background The aetiology of acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) is incompletely understood. Understanding the relationship between chronic bacterial airway infection and viral exposure may explain ...

Purpose With improving short-term mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), understanding survivors’ posthospitalisation outcomes is increasingly important. However, little is known ...

Introduction and objectives Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has been shown to reduce in-patient mortality in AECOPD from 20 to 10%. In 2011 national data revealed that there were multifactorial ...

Objective We assessed associations between physical activity and lung function, and its decline, in the prospective population-based European Community Respiratory Health Survey cohort.

Otago and Canterbury Respiratory Research Groups, Dunedin and Christchurch Schools of Medicine, University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand Dr D R Taylor, Department of Medicine, Dunedin School of ...