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

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

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 ...

aRespiratory Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, UK, bCancer and Blood Programme, The Hospital for ...

1 Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia 2 Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Lidcombe, New South Wales, ...

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

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

1 Center for Humanizing Critical Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Murray, Utah, USA Background With improving short-term mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), understanding and ...

Chronic airways diseases, including asthma, COPD and cystic fibrosis, cause significant morbidity and mortality and are associated with high healthcare expenditure, in the UK and worldwide. For ...

Background Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) is the most common indication for home ventilation, although the optimal therapy remains unclear, particularly for severe disease. We compared ...

Rationale Approximately 60% of the patients with obstructive sleep apnoea suffer from a positional effect, and approximately 25% of these patients present events only in the supine position. Objective ...

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 ...