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Assessing causal relationships between diabetes mellitus and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: a Mendelian randomisation study
Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a disease of progressive lung scarring. There is a known association ...
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Body mass index is associated with the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome
Environmental Health Department (Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology Program), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Dr D C Christiani, ...
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Atypical radiological manifestation of sarcoidosis presenting with an anterior mediastinal mass ...
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Orphan lung diseases in childhood: still unadopted?
Despite recent initiatives, the UK is failing adequately to address the inequities in healthcare provision for children with rare lung disease Money drives research—whether it is for profit by drug ...
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Integrated breathing and relaxation training (the Papworth method) for adults with asthma in primary care: a randomised controlled trial
Health Behaviour Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK Elizabeth Holloway, Research Physiotherapist, Department of Epidemiology and Public ...
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British Thoracic Society community acquired pneumonia guideline and the NICE pneumonia guideline: how they fit together
The British Thoracic Society (BTS) guideline for the management of adults with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) published in 2009 was compared with the 2014 National Institute for Health and Care ...
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Postoperative pulmonary complications following thoracic surgery: are there any modifiable risk factors?
2 Department of Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Coventry University, School of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry, UK 3 Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, ...
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Adults miscoded and misdiagnosed as having pneumonia: results from the British Thoracic Society pneumonia audit
A key objective of the British Thoracic Society national community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) audit was to determine the clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospitalised adults given a primary ...
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Asthma and incident cardiovascular disease: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Background: A possible association between asthma and cardiovascular disease has been described in several exploratory studies. Methods: The association of self-reported, doctor diagnosed asthma and ...
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Summary of effects of parental smoking on the respiratory health of children and implications for research
BACKGROUND Two recent reviews have assessed the effect of parental smoking on respiratory disease in children. METHODS The results of the systematic quantitative review published as a series inThorax ...
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Standardisation of lung function testing: helpful guidance from the ATS/ERS Task Force
Correspondence to: Dr Gabriel Laszlo Department of Respiratory Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol BS2 8HW, UK; glaszlo11{at}aol.com This first chapter is essential reading for laboratory staff ...
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Multiple roles of nitric oxide in the airways
Nitric oxide is endogenously released in the airways by nitric oxide synthase. Functionally, two isoforms of this enzyme exist: constitutive and inducible. The former seems to protect airways from ...