Rationale Despite high prevalence of e-cigarette use (vaping), little is currently known regarding the health effects of secondhand nicotine vape exposure. Objective To investigate whether exposure to ...

Background This study reports preliminary outcomes from a joint Respiratory Consultant and Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) ‘one stop’ cough clinic. Local and tertiary referrals were accepted.

A pillar of the WHO End TB Strategy is targeted latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) testing to identify persons who would benefit from TB preventive treatment (TPT).1 The WHO recommends the ...

Background Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is characterised by damage to the epithelial layer, closely associated with the alveolar basement membrane (BM). We aimed to investigate how type IV ...

Pulmonary rehabilitation has established itself as a vital and core therapy for people with chronic lung disease. Significant improvements are seen in several patient outcomes, for the thousands ...

Method Adults with a first-recorded code for breathlessness (index date) and subsequent coded diagnosis between 2007 and 2017 were included from a UK primary care database (CPRD-GOLD). Cox regression ...

Introduction The benefits achieved during pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) are known to decline 6–12 months after the initial programme. There is no consensus on the best maintenance strategy.1 Previous ...

Background Smoking has been considered an important risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) incidence. However, there are no population-based large-scale studies demonstrating the effects ...

Introduction Better patient selection for non-invasive ventilation (NIV), and time to NIV initiation, are national improvement objectives.1Treatment escalation planning (TEP) was also identified ...

Results Data for 7135 patients included in the audit in England were extracted. Overall admission rates (proportion with at least one admission) were18.6% and 29.6% at 90 and 180 days respectively. At ...

Background It is current practice to use a single diagnostic sleep study in the diagnostic workup of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA). However, a relevant night-to-night variability (NtNV) of ...